Word: gavelling
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...post. He in turn, in a moment of glee, shouted his own name. And then, maybe by mistake, or sheer exhaustion, the anonymous councilor accumulated a fourth, and then a fifth and final nod. The deadlock was smashed. The councilors awaited the bang of the clerk's gavel officially ending the stalemate...
Both O'Neill and Rhodes were partially right. The Congress that adjourned in a scramble of legislation just before Christmas was involved in more than a classic confrontation between a liberal Democratic majority and a conservative Republican President. From the rap of the first gavel last January, Congress was striving to regain lost ground in its continuing power struggle with the Executive. Simultaneously, reformers were at work in both chambers-particularly in the House-trying to liberalize and open up congressional procedures...
...look, I'm sorry if I'm disturbing you so much really sorry,' says the Speaker a minute later-pounding his gavel. "But if you're not going to listen, will you please leave...
...maintain his composure. From 2.36 to 2.39 p.m., he stood with his neck craned awkwardly until he sensed the time was up and raised an eyebrow towards the attorney as if to obtain his release. Four people in the gallery laughed nervously, the suddenly useful court officer snapped his gavel hard into his desk to maintain order, the attorney snapped his chinup from his watch, and the three minutes were up suddenly...
Room 906 of the Superior Court is a drab, lofty-ceilinged room constructed with a kind of austere efficiency, doing away with the symbolic bar which might have dignified counsel, but fastidiously erecting pontifical stations for the court officers, where the gavel-equipped crew has achieved a sort of porcine grandeur. The only gothic element of the courtroom consists in long and severe, slit-like windows. The wind is forever howling among the tall buildings that hold up Government Center, but it is hardly a tragic sound, and occasionally, when the beefy officer with the jowls like the Verrazanno Bridge...