Word: gavelling
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LAST week the American Bar Association announced its Gavel Awards, and once again TIME (with Look) won the honors in the magazine category. TIME also received a 1959 Gavel for its May 5, 1958 cover story on the rule...
...Drawing Back." Friendly quit after a hassle with his group vice president, John Schneider. CBS had already broadcast General James Gavin's testimony live from gavel to gavel. Schneider decided to forgo televising the next day's hearings, featuring ex-Diplomat George Kennan, in favor of a taped condensation to be run later. What burned Friendly even more was that NBC covered the proceedings while CBS was showing stale reruns from I Love Lucy. All this made Friendly most unfriendly, especially toward Schneider...
...resulting political struggle has been one of the most divisive in recent Cambridge history. The Curry supporters seem to have done everything possible to widen the split in the Council. They have constantly harried the new mayor, Daniel J. Hayes Jr. Though Hayes' inexperience with the gavel has resulted in some parliamentary mistakes, much of the needling he has received has been unnecessary and pointless. The Curry supporters have delibrately prolonged the debate and unearthed details of political maneuvering that have been, for the most part, irrelevant and embarrassing to all the councillors...
...result last week was one of the merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...
...Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana, "it is my honor and privilege to move that the first session of the 89th Congress do now adjourn." The clock stood at 12:52 a.m.; the Senate had quit two minutes earlier. To a chorus of yahoos, Speaker John McCormack banged his gavel, and the 40-odd members still on the floor headed jubilantly for the exits...