Word: gavelling
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City clerk Paul Healy wielded the gavel when Monday's city council meeting began; the first order of business was to try to elect one of the nine councilors to take his place...
...dozen long lines of people wait for benefit checks in shamed, disconsolate quiet. Most act too embarrassed to talk even to fellow job seekers. Few seem hopeful of finding work. Says Gloria Condele, 44, a laid off cashier: "Even people who are still working are worried." Roy Gavel, previously laid off as a Chevrolet assembly worker in 1975, got certified as a diesel mechanic to ensure more steady work. His new job lasted about a year; after more than 20 applications for jobs, he has given up on Detroit and, joining a growing tide, plans to move his wife...
...workhorse. Rostenkowski was close to his goal of becoming Speaker when the 1968 Democratic Convention intervened. Lyndon Johnson, watching the convention slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position...
...call to "Play ball!," the surest and happiest sign of spring, has sounded once again. The crack of the bat has replaced the clack of the auctioneer's gavel selling off free-agent flesh. Players safe in their tax shelters now worry only about being safe at first, and owners prick their ears for the sweetest music they know, the clatter of turnstiles. The baseball season has begun...
...obvious. Seated in his state office, surrounded by pictures and mementos of the eight Presidents with whom he has served, Magnuson says, "I may walk a little slow. But the meeting doesn't start until I get there, and it doesn't stop until I bang the gavel...