Bury the hatchet

Hatchet murder. Lower East Side tenement.

She give me the hatchet, and I broke it up.

Well, there's no point in digging up that old buried hatchet.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

Left the I.G. With nothing to do but pack up his hatchet and go home.

You want to bury the hatchet and make a loving cup? No. No, thank you.

I got a couple of hoods, a couple of hatchet men, stashed in that closet,

What do you say you and Georgie bury the hatchet and Sunday morning the three of us will sail up there and catch our limit.

In political terms, after more than ten years of war and a lengthy period of transition, the main protagonists in the conflict have agreed to bury the hatchet.

And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

It is time for the protagonists to see reason and bury the hatchet once and for all so that both the Israeli and the Palestinian peoples whose future is truly at stake may finally coexist in peace and security.

The Government replied that Dimitur Velev had run away from police officers and had threatened them with a hatchet, prompting them to resort to physical force in self defence, as a result of which they broke his right arm.

By contrast, consider the way France and Germany have buried the hatchet and learned to live in peace and trust. It is this extraordinary, historic act that made possible the reconstruction and successful development of Europe over the last half century.

Periodic clashes remind us that in Somalia, the hatchet has not definitely been buried, despite numerous attempts at reconciling the fraternal Somali people. The Great Lakes region is progressively entering a phase of relative calm despite sporadic incidents stemming from the chain of events that have caused upheaval in this part of the continent.

Today there may be a hope that in the near future the veto will become a thing of the past, with the spinning wheel and the bronze hatchet, and will be no more to the peoples than the sign and symbol of a vanished world based on inequality among States, the privileges of power and the denial of the rule of law and morality. (Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventh Session, Plenary Meetings, 384th meeting, para.