21.   But the Sixers never showed the fight of their fictional patron saint, falling behind by double digits in the second quarter.

22.   But the Sixers never showed the fight of their fictional patron saint, falling behind by double digits midway through the second quarter.

23.   But there was Senti, his rod bent like a croquet hoop, with the fight of his life on his hands.

24.   But two weeks ago he deliberately forced the fight of his political life, and Tuesday he won it cleanly.

25.   Clinton has waged the toughest fight of any president against the cigarette industry and reaped justifiable public approval for his actions.

26.   Defensman Rob Blake won the only real fight of the game, pounding Tomas Holmstrom to the ice with a flurry of lefts in the second period.

27.   Early, when it was apparent Brown was in the political fight of his life, he often looked tired and worried.

28.   Eerie is not the word for a huge casino standing empty at midnight on Saturday just moments after the biggest money fight of all time.

29.   Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, is in the fight of her life, and she acts like it.

30.   Even for Albanians, the goal of independence burns less fiercely after the fights of past years than the hope for a better life.