Word: gavelling
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...broke in a vast, excited, ugly roar. Temporary Chairman Alben Barkley pounded his gavel. He ordered a voice vote on Vaughn's report. Although it had been agreed in committee not to have a roll call, Northern delegates shouted into their floor microphones, demanding one. But they could not be heard. The floor mikes were dead. Chairman Barkley asked for ayes and nays. Deadpan, he listened to the response and ruled that the majority report had carried. The Mississippi delegation was accredited...
...week, Harry Truman, forgetting for the moment his inter-party struggles, spoke familiarly and engagingly of his childhood, of the Republic, and of his predecessors in the White House. Just 100 years ago, the cornerstone of the monument had been laid. In Harry Truman's hand was a gavel, used in the 1848 ceremonies attended by President Polk and used before that by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol...
After the last gavel fell, Tom Dewey slipped back to his Bellevue-Stratford suite for an afternoon nap. In half an hour he was up again. Dressed in a fresh blue suit, he briskly took charge of all that remained to be done in Philadelphia. First, there was a group picture with the Warrens. Outside Room 808 were dozens of cameramen. Tom Dewey gave his orders: let the still-picture men come in first, then the moviemen, then the color cameramen...
Most televiewers kept staring at their sets until the gavel had fallen for the last time. For all its blurs and fluffs, TV had told a fascinating story. Under the forced draft of its first big assignment, it had proved to be an unpolished but very promising reporter...
...chairman of the five-nation U.N. Palestine Commission, Czechoslovakia's big, bespectacled Karel Lisicky, said disconsolately to his four colleagues, "Nobody can expect miracles from five lonely pilgrims who at this moment have nothing but the U.N. flag, and perhaps this gavel as well, as all their means for enforcing [the partition] resolution...