Word: gavelling
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...near the glass, while under bright lights inside, the horsy rich gossiped, complained about the location of their seats, shifted their jewels and studied their catalogues. From high on a rostrum center stage, a young man in a tuxedo surveyed the all-white crowd, then once again rapped his gavel and begged for silence. When it came at last, he reverentially intoned the pedigree of the skittish filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second man in a rolling baritone, "who'll give...
...audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue, building purposefully to that inevitable climactic gavel rap: "Are you all through? At fifty-five hundred and . . . six, you want him? Fifty-five hundred and . . ." BAM, the gavel would come down, and the gentleman in the fifth row who had firmly decided he could spend no more than $3,500 for the filly would suddenly find himself...
Senator Mike Gavel (D-Alaska) said yesterday that he will filibuster any bill to extend the draft past the present law's June 30 expiration date...
...showdown ratification vote, the board's 4-4 tie was broken by the black president, Jesse Jacobs. Joining Gibson's other appointees in opposing the mayor's wishes, he banged his gavel defiantly. "Free at last!" he shouted. "I vote no!" Gibson, now ironically allied with the white board members, found chances for compromise vanishing; the union threatened a campaign to recall him. At week's end the outlook was for a cooling-off period of at least a week before negotiations might resume. Newark's restless children, who have been watching TV and wandering...
...signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency of the City Council to fire the City Manager after every election demand more attention from the Council. Often Mayor Vellucci must bang his gavel 20 times to maintain order in the council chamber. The era of dinners at Igo's has gone...