Word: gavelled
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...Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin would come "from time to time." The word to Japan: the U.S., China, Britain will beat Tokyo into "unconditional surrender." For their word, the Germans would have to wait a while. Americans could imagine the state of Germans' nerves as the R.A.F., like a monstrous gavel hammering for the world's attention, struck almost nightly blows at Berlin...
...that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
Columnist Luce had written mostly about Congress, The column's title: Here the Gavel Fell. Its motto: "Don't undersell your Congress." Her weekly reports ran 1,200 to 1,600 words, gave soldiers a brilliantly readable summary of the political week. When she wrote, early in May, that home-front journalists were predicting that WPBoss Donald Nelson might be on the way out, she added a gag making the rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When...
...gavel pounded, and the nominating roll call began. Alabama and Arizona passed. Then a voice bellowed from the loudspeakers: "Arkansas yields to Wisconsin." A man from Wisconsin stepped forward to the microphone and began talking about Valley Forge. The Senator looked excitedly at his watch...