11.   A three-packs-of-Marlboros-a-day habit ended when the doctors found cancer on his vocal chords.

12.   Danny Glover, Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Martin, Martin Short and Patrick Stewart lend their distinctively identifiable vocal chords to their characters.

13.   Eat cheese, there might be mucus on her vocal chords.

14.   Even indoors, he did not take off his polar fleece pullover or loosen the thick wool scarf wrapped around his neck to protect his vocal chords.

15.   Every coach and player was available for an hour or until his vocal chords gave out, whichever came first.

16.   Foley is pitting his vocal chords against circling vultures.

17.   Gov. Pete Wilson underwent successful throat surgery Friday to remove a small benign nodule on his vocal chord, his doctor said.

18.   Gov. Pete Wilson is scheduled to undergo surgery today to have a nodule removed from his right vocal chord, aides and his doctor said.

19.   He said that until mid-March, he was only able to make garbled sounds because his left vocal chord had been paralyzed.

20.   His vocal chords still afford his usual loquacity.