Word: gavelling
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Three days later, as Eric Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...
When, after 10 p.m., the Speaker's gavel wearily rapped adjournment, OPA was a crimson corpse on the green-carpeted floor...
Pounding his gavel, the President then declared the 21st and last session of the League of Nations closed. As the delegates hurried off, a lonely peacock-sole survivor of the League's once proud flock-slunk off to hide under a laurel bush...
Half an hour late, in strode imperious Colonel James Alphonse Kilian, former commandant of the depot. In barrel-organ tones he demanded to see the order convening the court. The president banged his gavel to silence the belligerent witness. Kilian called for a comfortable chair- "one with arms on it if I have to sit here...
Fourteen times during five hours, the gavel was slammed to bring the witness to order. Once Kilian stretched, looked at the prosecutor and stuck out his tongue. Said a G.I. onlooker: "I'd like to see one of us act like that...