Word: gavelling
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...entered smiling?ins colony, too, would vote for independence. New York's men still awaited instructions from home, but they would not dissent. That left only Delaware stalemated?one delegate in favor, one opposed, and one back home on business. Bostonian John Hancock, President of the Congress, rapped his gavel. Secretary Charles Thomson began rereading the resolution aloud prior to a vote...
...addition, the American Bar Association has once again given TIME the Certificate of Merit in its annual Gavel awards competition for legal reporting. Singled out were: "The Crime Wave," a cover story written by Jose M. Ferrer III, James Atwater and John Leo; "The Truth About Hoover," written by Ed Magnuson; and "Curbing It Without Killing It," a story on bringing the Federal Bureau of Investigation under control, written by Frank B. Merrick...
...opposition has succeeded in bedeviling the tolerant and administratively naive Miller, who never ran anything bigger than a 200-man local before taking over the 250,000-member U.M.W. Taking advantage of Miller's inexperience-and reluctance to use a gavel in meetings-his rivals turn board sessions into parliamentary pandemonium, quarreling, shouting and, during a recent budget debate, nearly coming to blows with Miller supporters. "The meetings are a goddam circus," says Miller...
...passage after passage that the reader was as wired into the events of two years ago as they themselves were. In other places, though, they pile on facts as if Simon and Schuster were paying them by the word. We are told, for instance, that Peter Rodino rapped his gavel to open the House Judiciary hearings on impeachment at 1:08 p.m., but you have to flip pages to find out what day the hearings began on. This kind of inconsistency can get downright maddening...
...Everybody refers to him as being ceremonial, but in any legislative body the power of the gavel (which the mayor holds at all times except during the mayoral election) can be very effective," says Crane. "And," he quips, "if the mayor's job is used properly it could get you a lot of number-one votes in the next council election...