Word: gaveled
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...meeting, which lasted five-and-a-half hours, was filled with confusion, last-minute legislation, occasional lack of quorum and was punctuated by the continual sound of the gavel straining to keep order...
...then last week came Sotheby's yard sale of Jacqueline Kennedy's bric-a-brac. Jackie belonged to the founding myth of the '60s. Now the saint's relics of Camelot have turned to kitsch. The gavel-banging crassness of the sell-off may help bring Americans to that objectivity and even disillusionment necessary for what grief specialists refer to as "closure...
Once the bidding and gavel pounding began, an answer quickly emerged: very high, unbelievably high. Perhaps the best indication on the opening night of the stratospheres ahead came with the offering of a small stool with a torn, faded and stained satin cover. Sotheby's had estimated its market value at $100 to $150. After a furious competition between three bidders, two in the room and one on the phone, the homely little piece was sold...
...furniture, books, paintings, jewelry and other items auctioned last week by Sotheby's. The auction catalog listed them at $3.3 million to $4.6 million, representing Sotheby's best guess at the fair market value they would command if not imbued with the magic of Camelot. But when the final gavel came down Friday, the items had brought in $34.5 million...
...appointed him by reversing his ruling, which left the President free to climb back onto the moral high ground. "It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make," Clinton said almost immediately after Baer fell on his gavel. Dole, too, accommodated the changed landscape with stunning speed. "I don't suggest we ought to be able to pressure judges, but we ought to be able to criticize [them] when we think they've made a mistake," he said last Wednesday...