Word: gaveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now, leave the local work rules until later. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell rapped labor for holding to "status quo at any price," and reproached management for "attempts to change by the bang of a single gavel working habits built up over many years." A renewal of the strike in January, said Mitchell, is "unthinkable...
...hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver, the U.S. would elect a new President...
...extraordinary play, and First Baseman Orlando Cepeda (.321), who can slug the ball out of sight (19 home runs). Shortstop Ed Bressoud plugs a leaky infield, and stubby Catcher Hobie Landrith gives the Giants a holler guy who seems to carry a mitt on one hand and a gavel in the other, is ready to call an infield meeting at the first sign of a bad pitch...
...measure of McCarthy's defeat that, only two years after his death, it takes an effort of the imagination to recall the shifty but haunted eyes, the spurious rhetoric, the rasping voice ("Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman! Point of order!") that could not be halted by the gavel of reason. The allusion to Euripides should not keep one from remembering that, while there was tragedy in the McCarthy era. there was comedy, too. Rovere recalls that Brooks Atkinson once blamed McCarthyism for a bad Broadway season and that a noted rabbi held the Senator's influence responsible for panty...
...Cried Republican Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama, a candidate for the U.S. House: "I didn't even get a pen. Mine was stolen." Said Democratic Senator Sakai Takahashi: "Somebody else grabbed my desk set." Said Senator Oren E. Long, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate: "Darn it all, my gavel was stolen...