Word: carbos
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...underworld class-it gives a guy the taint of respectability. So when Helfand tried to find out why a slick young welterweight named Vince Martinez was getting the brushoff from matchmakers, it was not exactly news that witnesses began to mumble about a Murder Inc. alumnus named Frankie Carbo...
...boxer, Parker remembered, but as a professional he had earned a shot at the title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...
...possible explanation of the putrid affair," wrote Parker, "is that Signer Carbo ... saw that the Keed not only was getting balky but also was slipping rapidly, and, to keep control of the title, arranged with Blinky -to pass it along to Saxton. Gavilan apparently was suspicious from the start...
...matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin vortere nondum possum, Abigail Lewis. Et vobis quoque contingat semper pro meritis corona--et vinum, o adulescentes facundi et procaces--tu, Carbo ardens, et vos, Rolande callide edaxque Scote, et tu, o Reducta Valles cui dolus est Diaboli...
...with the Communists that all but the Commies deplore. His attempt to seize for the Government the differential between the 1947 and 1946 sugar prices has alienated 50,000 sugar growers and a large part of his Autentico Party. "Never in the Republic's 45 years," said Sergio Carbo, another ex-Grau man, "has a Government squandered so much, robbed so much, or deceived the people so much...