Word: gaveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victorious Crimson skydivers received the Gavin Gavel, a trophy donated by Lieut. Gen. James M. Gavin, Army chief ofresearch and development. Haskell and Tompkins also received individual trophy cups. There were 11 other colleges represented at the meet, including Yale, Princeton, Amherst and Williams...
...President Munro, lawyer and onetime newspaper editor who has served at the U.N. for the past five years, promised to gavel quickly for order, start the sessions on time, and get everybody home for Christmas. "I can see no reason at all," he said, "why we should not have a reasonably tranquil session." It was another matter how many problems the session would settle...
Grim, gruff John McClellan rapped the table with his gavel. Before him in the Senate caucus room sat Teamster Vice President James Riddle Hoffa, his stony face pale, his big fists flexing. It was a weary moment, the climax of 17 hours of question and evasion before McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee, during which Hoffa wriggled relentlessly over craggy points of absurdity. McClellan began to talk: "For reasons that are apparent to everyone who has followed these hearings, we have reached a point where it seems to be useless and a waste of the committee's time...
...among the peers. I want to hear the gavel ring, to hear
...sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack. At ?3,200 ($8,960), the auctioneer held the gavel in the air for almost half a minute, then knocked Lot 40 down to Davis. Said the sad-faced Jack, who was bidding to return the panels to Sulgrave Manor (a privately operated museum): "A tragedy. We had no chance against the almighty dollar." Davis had bought for the Corning...