Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minoso to every person who remembers when Jim "Catfish" Hunter was a good pitcher. And I'll give Minnie Minoso to the first person who tells me that Hunter, even in the midst of his five consecutive 20-win seasons, had a Ross Grimsley penchant for giving up the gopher ball. Well, kids, he did it again last night as the Dodgers tied up the World Series at one game apiece...
Thus Carter routinely modulates his pitch, employing a delicate rising and falling of his voice that results in an almost singsong effect. Another Gulf coastal plain element: he drops what linguists call postvocalic rs in such words as go-phuh (gopher) and Cot-tuh. According to Pederson, however, the younger generation of Gulf coastal plains people, who have been exposed to accentless network television and modern speech courses, pronounce...
...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...