31.   The danger of frustration swelling the ranks of extremism remains, but for all the disasters, things are moving in the right direction.

32.   The good news spread, swelling the ranks of celebrating aides.

33.   The juvenile justice system in Texas is ripping apart at the seams from an avalanche of youngsters swelling the ranks of the criminal class.

34.   The new world order has swollen the ranks of Olympic participants.

35.   The ranks were swollen Friday night when five more players rejoined the Yankees, back from Columbus, which won the International League playoff.

36.   The same kind of opportunistic reading used to be practiced from the other side in the bad old days as a way of swelling the ranks of slave laborers.

37.   Their ranks are being swelled by prostitutes, who have been pushed off streets by police and irate neighbors.

38.   Those who wish to swell the ranks that already include such luminaries as Joan of Arc and Francis of Assisi have suggested the late princess belongs in that company.

39.   To take power, they need to swell their ranks, and in the developing world, the overwhelming majority of people are poor.

40.   Peer pressure and a need to belong has swelled gang ranks.