Word: carbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernie Carbo and Ed Armbrister...
Only the poorest kids from the toughest circumstances are bold enough to try this way out and naive enough to like their chances. Most fighters are strangely vulnerable. So wishful and sincere, they are eternally easy marks for the users, the chiselers, Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo and all their current counterparts. Yet many people regard boxing's corruption as its charm and find the scoundrels colorful and delightful. Nobody really worries...
...friends from Cincinatti chatted quietly of Bernie Carbo and Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine. Another brought up the Dodgers and that infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey that seemed to play together forever as the boys in Freeway Blue rolled through the late '70s. For my part, I just rambled back to first grade and those Amazing Mets of 1969--Al Weiss, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones ("You remember what happened to Cleon?" --the back seat of that car, those drugs, that woman...
Coxswain Sally Harris expertly navigated the heavyweights' new, high-technology Carbo-craft boat (almost light enough to attach a string and fly in Saturday's winds) to a bumpy 15-second win over Northeastern...
...just sat on my bed and cried," she says. "My first night at Harvard--I hadn't even met my roommates--I dropped off my bags, and my mom and I went to a Red Sox-Tigers doubleheader. They were great games, too. I wanted to see Bernie Carbo play...