21.   They drank toasts, and when the subject turned to extremism in Russian politics, a troupe of two guitarists and a singer slipped in to enliven things.

22.   They drank a toast to their future together.

23.   They drank champagne toasts at midnight, thankful they had bottled water at home.

24.   At the joulupoyta, tradition requires everyone at the table to make eye contact with everyone else when drinking a toast.

25.   At one point, he said, the negotiators rose and drank a toast to all the dead on both sides.

26.   Benenson had been moved by the story of two Portuguese students jailed for seven years for drinking a toast to democracy in a Lisbon bar.

27.   He kept a bottle of Remy Martin cognac with him, they said, to drink a toast after each hit.

28.   Karremans denies he drank a toast and says the wine glass he was holding contained water.

29.   Russians and Chechens drank a toast to their dead Monday, then agreed to safeguard the living with a limited truce that halts the use of heavy artillery.

30.   Russians and Chechens drank a toast to their dead, then agreed to safeguard the living with a limited truce that halts the use of heavy artillery beginning Tuesday.