21.   The crowd lingered along the Rose Bowl concourse, pushing up against metal gates and straining to see over cement walls.

22.   This was in stark contrast to conductors like Fritz Reiner or Wilhelm Furtwangler, whose beat patterns even their musicians strained to see.

23.   We both stepped to the curb, straining to see the last of the geese.

24.   Canadian flags waved beside Union Jacks and children with red Maple Leafs painted on their faces strained to see the Queen and Prince Philip at Canada Day celebrations.

25.   Chinese tourists, kept back in a far corner of the courtyard by a line of military police, strained to see Mrs. Bush.

26.   Horns blared and cyclists careened through crowds of bearded men straining to see the bodies that were left hanging from steel cranes.

27.   Horns blared as bicycles careened through crowds of bearded men straining to see the bodies that were left hanging from the cranes.

28.   Mariko Iwanami shivered as she strained to see past the crowd and barricade of police officers.