21.   It was a family tragedy that gave Mrs. Riggs the opportunity to hear these and other tales first hand.

22.   Late-night television pioneer Jack Parr, addressing TV critics in Pasadena, was obviously shaken by the Cosby family tragedy.

23.   Meanwhile, off to the side is Purdue, a team that has quietly recovered from three family tragedies and continual injuries.

24.   Mrs. Brown filled the courtroom with the emotional drama of what, in the end, is a family tragedy as well as an American spectacle.

25.   Much of her funk can be traced to a family tragedy.

26.   Mystically reunited by short-wave radio, father and son collaborate on averting family tragedies and on preventing and solving some murders committed three decades earlier.

27.   Ms. Markovic was similarly steeped in a sense of family tragedy.

28.   Olympic viewers are accustomed to network features about athletes that often strain to find the obstacles, family tragedies or melodramatic woes that formed them.

29.   Only one small gesture at the end of the novel, after a family tragedy, indicates that one of them is still capable of offering unqualified love.

30.   On the fast track of celebrity culture, family tragedies are as common as fancy cars.