Word: gavelling
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...Greater Fall River Cable TV Co., which provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of the trial, drew strong criticism from the pressing judge, Williams G Young '62, for broadcasting the name of the alleged victim. News organizations traditionally honor the privacy of alleged rape victims...
Both Flaherty and Graham supported Keverian in his year-long battle to wrest the Speaker's gavel from Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who ruled the 160-member body for almost a decade...
...Spee. Away Delphic, Phoenix, Fly, and A.D., Those severed ties should not give alarm, We leave you some coal to keep yourselves warm. A shiny new gavel for Brian Melendez, Who hopes all the Council will do just as he says. Those eager dissenters now have reason for pause. Their leader awaits them with copious bylaws. To the Quad folk--from your dearly beloved Dean Fox, Alas, look ye forward to many empty socks. And although good ole Cabot will renovate soon. Those poor folks up there cannot transfer till June. While up at NoHo, they"ll tear...
...Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston), a Keverian supporter, said yesterday that the "Dean" of the House, Anthony M. Scibelli (D-Springfield), who controls the gavel until the new speaker is elected, may decide Keverian has enough support to ask for him to be elected by acclamation...
Television's habit of cutting away at will from the podium began, with far more justification, in the days when conventions were a gaudy and contentious rite where delegates really debated and decided. Television boasted of the civic responsibility of its gavel-to-gavel coverage, but even then it was contrasting the shouting orator and the snoozing delegate or chasing politicians down hotel corridors, arguing that this was where the real news was being made. It was also where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage...