Historical clue formulations

• Word repeated in "___, ___, gone!" — 2025-04-14
• Word repeated in a classic Energizer slogan — 2022-11-20
• Word cried twice before "gone" — 2017-04-24
• Making a feeble effort — 2014-12-11
• Active — 2013-07-11
• Part of an auctioneer's cry — 2012-07-11
• *Usual amount to pay — 2011-09-11
• In action — 2008-08-27
• Successful — 2006-11-04
• On one's way — 2006-09-04
• Current — 2005-05-20
• On the way out — 2005-04-20
• In operation — 2001-06-03
• Auctioneer's word — 2000-05-10
• Like some concerns — 1998-07-04
• Auctioneer's warning — 1996-05-30
• Start of an auctioneer's windup — 1996-01-16