Word: gophering
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...historical sites and sitting through speeches by prominent pols (including then Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R.-Mich.)) with a day following our senators around the Hill. Since Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) was away campaigning for the presidency, both Minnesota delegates were pawned off on the senior "Gopher State" senator, "Fritz" Mondale, who took on the tour-guide task with an amiability that eased our initial disappointment at the legendary HHH's absence...
...cast of characters following Clifford's abbreviated two-plus inning stint were, in order of appearance: Jamie Werly, Ken Petkunas, Tom Pura, and Bob Larson. Doling out 12 walks and two gopher balls to the Cornellians, the Crimson pitching staff was ineffective in almost every inning...
...other hand, some might say Carter, whose relentless gopher's grin and Joe Hardy-like rise from obscurity have earned him the recent sobriquet "The Devil's Candidate," was only going to touch base with the dark spirits who have granted him his mortal popularity...
...think Minnesota took us for granted a little bit." Roth said yesterday. "The WCHA [Western College Hockey Association] isn't head-and-shoulders above us, as Gopher coach Herb Brooks said: Our problem was we were satisfied to make the ECACs and the Nationals, but we weren't hungry enough to win the championship...
...mist-shrouded clock shows a mere 9 seconds remaining in the Minnesota penalty, suddenly, visions of a ghostly gopher--freshman John Matchsky--appear. The puck comes out from behind the Crimson net, on to Matchsky's stick, and quickly disappears behind Harvard's netminder Bruce Curno to tie the game with just 11 seconds left...