Word: bambinos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albert Belle and Tony Pena, with two swings of their bats, brought the Curse of the Bambino crashing down on Fenway. And by the end of the series the Red Sox had another number to haunt them at night--13--thirteen straight post-season losses, dating back to games six and seven of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets...
...Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder shape and, with age catching up on him, more determined than ever...
...wait--no, I prepare--for the game all winter. I peruse my book-shelf full of Red Sox books, go over old scorebooks, and crunch stats on my computer. I exmpound on my pet theories about The Course of the Bambino. I do Rotisserie and Fantasy Leagues. I speculate on talk shows. My stove is very hot, indeed...
...sizes of pasta -- round, square, tubular, flat -- and Americans seemingly craved them all. In the '80s the nation gorged on this basic yet incredibly varied Italian staple. Last year domestic consumption of pasta, from agnolotti to ziti, topped 4 billion lbs. -- nearly 18 lbs. for every man, woman and bambino...