21.   Our oil man, without examining it, told us we need a new furnace.

22.   Pastels were widely dismissed as superficial by the oil painters, but the effects this artist achieved were so powerful that the oil men were forced to take notice.

23.   Q. The oil man spilled heating oil on light-gray semitransparent stained clapboards.

24.   Remember when your oil man asked you to triple the last three payments of your yearly budget?

25.   The New Zealand oil man, who did not identify himself for fear of retaliation, needs no official reminder.

26.   The oil man said the problem is not the burner but the car in the attached garage.

27.   This is a White House run by and for oil men.

28.   Attilio Monti, a self-made oil man who later founded a publishing empire, has died at his villa in France, his company said Tuesday.

29.   Bush studied Spanish in school and learned more through conversation with friends in Texas, where he was an oil man and governor.

30.   For Hishamuddin, and many others, it is a life that alternates between being an oil man for seven days and a family man for the next seven.