Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone seems to open the hatch to the broadcast booth whenever the organist strikes up again. After three days of shouting over an uninterrupted commercial, ABC's Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer must have been glad to get back to the relative quiet of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome...
...Humphrey's presidential campaign song in 1968 was a regrettable selection that went, "Will everyone here kindly step to the rear and let a winner lead the way." From before Humphrey to after Walter Mondale, with a lot of Harold Stassen and Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games...
...yesterday's edition, the Boston Globe alleged that the idea for the media project had been largely formulated by Walter Raymond Jr., known in the Iran-Contra hearings as one of North's close colleagues. Previously, the conception of the project had been attributed to Sen. Gordon Humphrey...
...spokesman for Sen. Humphrey, William Anthony, denied that Raymond had had undue influence in the conception of the project...
...some time we probably did talk to Raymond," Anthony said, but he added that Sen. Humphrey was the one who was the moving force behind the project...