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...mood. Still, as the nation's most avid psephologist,* Johnson took every opportunity to discount his recent drop in the polls. Without even looking down at his notes, he rattled off nearly a dozen favorable tallies and, with a brief flash of his White House petulance, threw a barb at reporters: "We have had a dozen polls, I guess, in the last week. You don't read about the favorable ones, though, I observe." Quoting a poll that gave him the approval of 55% of the nation, Johnson added: "That is what you reported as a landslide during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Psephologist at Play | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...stuck in a barb wire snare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

They're hangin' on the ol' barb' wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funeral March | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Radcliffe had the momentum, but Wheaton's sextet didn't give up. Wheaton held a slim 13-12 lead when the Cliffies finally run out of gas. Forward Barb Frehlingheusen hit a 20-foot set shot and center Martha Noyes scored a tip-in moments later which sewed it up for the Wheaties...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: 'Cliffe Hoopsters Absorb 18-14 Loss From Experienced Wheaton Team | 2/25/1965 | See Source »

Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Beware the Man-of-War | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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