Word: gavelling
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...colt. Among the overflow crowd of 1,600 at the open-air pavilion moved white-jacketed "spotters," alert for the telltale gestures-a casual nod, a lifted finger-that signifies a bid. The first horse went quickly. "Sold for $30,000," boomed Auctioneer Milton Dance Jr., rapping his gavel for emphasis. By the time Auctioneer Dance's gavel had fallen for the 48th and last time. $319,500 worth of horseflesh-all paid for in cash-had changed hands...
...agenda was ratification of 118 118 constitutional amendments, a marathon polling performance that took two days and a four-hour night session. As constitution-committee chairman, Hoffa had dictated the changes. As convention chairman, he conducted the loud ceremony of their approval. With one hand on his gavel and the other on switches that controlled floor microphones, the Teamster boss directed his delegates through 92 pages of "reform." Among the amendments: ¶A Hoffa pay raise from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, plus unlimited expenses, making him labor's highest-paid leader. There were more modest raises...
...auction at Sotheby's in London last week, U.S. Collector Charles B. Wrightsman bought for $392,000 the Duke and Duchess of Leeds's portrait by Goya of the first Duke of Wellington. The auctioneer's gavel had hardly banged for the last time when a group of Tory M.P.s started a campaign to prevent Wrightsman from getting an export license-and that could mean, as it has with other purchasers, that Wrightsman might have to wait months before the government decides whether he can take his painting home, or must resell it in Britain at some...
When, some time in early 1962, Unruh picks up the speaker's gavel, he will take over a post that by the nature of its duties stands second only to the governorship in importance. And California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") "Brown, a political master of the hesitation waltz, should be no particular obstacle in the path of Unruh's drive for actual party power. Already Unruh is greeted far more warmly in John Kennedy's White House than Brown...
...hours or a day or a night." Someone bid $50. "But this is a man,'' pleaded the auctioneer. "You can't just bid 50-he weighs more than that." The bids went to $55, $250, $300. At the sum of $350 Auctioneer Leonard Bernstein brought his gavel down; thus was Actor Richard Burton, the star of Camelot, acquired by Elsa Maxwell...