31.   A friend called Thursday with some stunning news.

32.   A friend called to ask me how to get candle wax out of her carpet.

33.   Afraid that Beck would turn it on himself, the friend called police.

34.   Alas, on Wednesday your fickle friends call to say they will not be able to visit until Saturday.

35.   After two all-white juries deadlocked and the years passed, De La Beckwith, whose friends call him Dee-lay, thinks himself bulletproof.

36.   Agent after agent rejected the book, Faulk says, until a well-connected friend called an acquaintance at the William Morris Agency and persuaded him to read the manuscript.

37.   All my friends call me.

38.   All week his friends have been calling, reminding him of the day Uruguay beat Brazil.

39.   But a friend started calling him constantly, insisting he get him cocaine.

40.   But a friend called him from Nantucket to congratulate him.