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...SOUTH: Jimmy Carter still is ahead in nine states, though his lead has been diminishing. Ford has taken a narrow lead in Louisiana, and is ahead by a whisker in Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's Ahead State by State | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...race that did go according to forecast, he carried Maryland by 16 percentage points. The polls also showed a confident Carter to be leagues ahead of Morris Udall in Michigan and in front of Brown in Maryland. Instead, the Georgian beat Udall by only a whisker and lost to Brown by twelve percentage points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRIMARIES: More Upsets in a Volatile Spring | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...Within a Whisker...

Author: By David Clarke, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Laxmen Rally to Tie, But Bow in OT | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...that's underestimating how much the Crimson stickmen wanted this game, and in the second half they charged out and came within a whisker of taking it. In the first 30 minutes, they had had trouble getting the ball out of the Harvard end. Brown passed the ball well on offense and the Crimson succeeded on only five of 11 clears. In the second half, Harvard passed the ball with precision, and did the job on 11 of 15 clears...

Author: By David Clarke, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Laxmen Rally to Tie, But Bow in OT | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then it suddenly goes crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Killer Joke Triumphs | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

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