Word: gibsonized
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Coleman and former Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson, the two Black panelists, also complained that white-owned newspapers, especially the New York Times, were condescending towards him and his administration...
...Gibson cited a meeting which was being covered by Times reporter Fox Butterfield in which someone in his administration, who objected to having reporters at town meetings, walked over to Butterfield and broke his pencil...
...Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd's locker was a portrait of Satchel Paige wearing his Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time...
...traditional tax shelters, ranging from real estate developments to cattle-ranching deals. One reason: investors will no longer be allowed to use so-called passive losses from these shelters to reduce their tax obligations on income from salaries and stock dividends. Says Norman Barker, a tax partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Los Angeles-based law firm: "I think it is safe to say that investors who once were in real estate and other tax shelters will turn to stocks...
...wild pitch; and Stanley did what he was brought in to do--he got Wilson to hit an easily playable ground ball). Yes, this was much worse--worse than selling that great lefty pitcher named Ruth, worse than Pesky holding the ball in 1946, worse than facing the Gibson machine in 1967, worse than Joe Morgan in 1975, worse even than Bucky Dent and Yaz's pop to third...