Word: voce
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...Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...
...summer long, while the tests crowded almost all other news out of London papers, the controversy about "bodyline" bowling raged more violently than ever. In Australia, last year, British Bowlers Voce and Larwood frightened and outraged Australian batters by bowling full- on at their bodies and even at their heads. Australia protested. This year Voce and Larwood were left off the English team. That England managed to make the fifth match necessary at all was due to an amazing performance by Bowler Verity in the second...
...Little Man, with a voce to match his middle, decided that it wouldn't be giving the Blue a break if he let it be known that Harvard had taken both first and second. So he shifted Woodard to the Yale team and bawled out "Second, Woodard...
Suddenly he found himself hemmed in and surrounded by the black silent ears of innumerable microphones. Irritably he swept the lot of them aside and bellowed viva voce to his people. Only the first few rows could hear him while those in back chatted loudly, sang Fascist hymns. Sharp ears in front heard their leader...
...High Sheriff did his rascally best to get the Governor's candidate elected. When a viva voce vote showed most of the electors for Lewis Morris, whom Governor Cosby had deposed as Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court, the Sheriff demanded a poll. Against all precedent, he barred from voting 38 Quakers for refusing to "swear on the Book" to their eligibility. Nonetheless Lewis Morris won the day and the electors triumphantly "waited on their new representative to his lodging with trumpets sounding and violins...