31.   Both teams are unhappy having to start the season with a Big East game.

32.   A friend, Tommy Manakides, said that Snyder had suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health and died of a coronary at Transitional Hospitals.

33.   A woman in my office told me that she, too, had been attacked but had been able to fight off her would-be rapist.

34.   But Drewe calmed his nerves by telling Myatt, who a year before had been lovelorn and broke, how brilliant he was, how rich he would get.

35.   But he was less tolerant of those who took advantage of him, for there had been so many.

36.   But to have been that close to death. . . .

37.   But there had been nothing like it in American history, even during the Civil War.

38.   But what has everybody talking is the quality of much of what is being offered.

39.   Casino industry executives, who have proved ingenious at marketing their products as harmless adult entertainment, until recently had been loath to concede that some gamblers become addicted.

40.   Had there not been a Winston Churchill during those dark days, the world likely would be much different today.