41.   The invitations to the first new members from Eastern Europe will be issued, to a volley of champagne corks, at a special summit at Madrid in July.

42.   The project faced minor challenges even until the first Champagne cork was popped.

43.   The sound of popping champagne corks mixed with shouts of celebration.

44.   Theater producers, toasting their good fortune, are popping champagne corks all over town.

45.   They cling to speeding Humvees and clattering freights, dodge bullets and helicopters, ride the rapids, pop out of the mine shaft like champagne corks.

46.   When the word came down, Johnson popped no champagne corks.

47.   When Lloyd pops a Champagne cork at a stuffy banquet of preservationists, you can be sure that it will do some lethal damage.

48.   When the champagne corks pop at millennium parties, the globe will have more to celebrate than the end of a wondrous thousand years.

49.   When the champagne corks take flight, Gardner deserves to be there.

50.   Yes, the reports were filled with bold-faced names and the sound of champagne corks popping, but there was a noticeable scarcity of juice.