111.   Ms. Walters is the master of asking a tough question then letting the subject off the hook without a tough follow-up.

112.   Most questioners tossed him bouquets rather than asking tough questions about the quality of his poetry.

113.   Name, place and tough question.

114.   Not long ago, a doctor asked him a series of tough questions, each thrown at him like a high, hard fastball.

115.   Not many tough questions for the winners.

116.   No sooner does she say yes than she starts asking tough questions of him and of herself.

117.   On the other hand, the antiterrorism legislation backed by Bush and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is generating tough questions about what it will do to civil liberties.

118.   One last chance for that tough question.

119.   Other Democrats lobbed softball questions at administration witnesses, but Lieberman asked tough questions and tried to position himself as objective and above the fray.

120.   One day, Bullock ordered an agency staff member to meet him at the cemetery for what the employee figured would be tough questions.