Word: gavelling
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...changing his vote. The clerk of the House then cried, "Off no, on yes." To jeers, laughter and applause, the tally shifted again: 207 to 205. The pro-Carter forces finally had taken the lead, and after one more member's yes, the chairman brought down his gavel with a whack and declared the final vote: 208 in favor of lifting the embargo, 205 against...
...surrogate for 8432 families throughout the commonwealth of Massachusetts... they're unanimous in that they are indicating to me that they are tired as hell and they don't want to take it anymore." The public erupted. State Sen. Alan Sisitsky, Senate chairman of the committee, hammered his gavel to hush the applause. "We do have rules that govern legislative proceedings," Sisitsky said, "that are different from the rules that may govern talk shows and with respect to the rules that govern legislative proceedings we hear people that support legislation and people that oppose legislation, and the legislation pending before...
...liberals goofed, or perhaps fate simply took its chance. Whatever the reason, Thomas W. Danehy, one of the council's most conservative members, will now be sitting in the front of the room with the gavel in his hand for the next two years, and the best word to describe the liberal's loss might be disappointment. First, it is disappointing that the liberals did not approach former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci for his support and back him for another term, because Vellucci's voting record has been consistently on the liberal side of issues. Perhaps it would have been...
...neither gone nor forgotten. Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci plans to have a lot to say on the City Council floor these next two years, even if he won't be up in front holding the gavel...
...would never change my vote because in 1968 I received five votes, and before that gavel came down, Councilor Goldberg changed his vote and left me with four. My whole family was there and everything. I just felt like a big idiot," Vellucci recalls. To have changed his vote Monday would have done Danehy a bad turn, he insists...