Word: gavels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like everything else in Florida this fall, it's gone national. Joe Lieberman was out in front of the cameras in Washington before the committee's gavel was cold, warning that the move would set a "terrible precedent" for future elections and "threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis which we are not in now by any stretch of the word." He asked them, Bush-style, to "reconsider." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, dusted off for the attack, called the special session a "Bush-brother brazen power play designed to circumvent the counting of the votes in our court system...
Indeed, discussion was faintly reminiscent of the Constitutional Convention--sans wigs and hose. Impassioned debates flared, and fists pounded the table in lieu of a gavel to monitor the bursts of excited speech...
...sure it was a smart move to have Johnnie Cochran there. And if Alan Dershowitz had showed up as well at the press conference in Sydney, I would have banged a gavel in my mind, and said, "That's it! Guilty as charged! Both Hunter and Jones should be banned from competition for life...
There was very little damage to objects in the room, according to University spokesperson Doug L. Gavel, who said that only one chair and one lamp were broken by the failing cement...
Stoughton and Hollis were both renovated in 1994, the work including new ceilings, walls and hardwood floors. But the ceilings in Hollis were finished differently than in Stoughton and thus are not as much a cause of concern, Gavel said...