41.   The hushed word in the art world is that museum satellite retail stores are closing around the country.

42.   The ghosts of those unlived lives circle close around McNamara.

43.   The issue was closing around the holidays, she said, and the person responsible for looking at the pages before they go to the printer missed the conflict.

44.   The resorts usually open in mid-June and close around the first week of October.

45.   The transaction, which must be approved by federal and state banking regulators, is expected to close around midyear, he said.

46.   To avoid getting lipstick on your teeth, stick forefinger in mouth, close lips around it and pull finger out.

47.   In the five years since Bulger bolted on word that he was the subject of a massive racketeering indictment, the net has closed around his cohorts.

48.   In the middle of the night, Ms. Liandinis said she awoke from a dream in which shadows closed around her husband.

49.   Labazenko, with several others, finally broke through Chechen lines that had closed around them.

50.   Last season, it was most painful in cold weather, when the sheath closed around the tendon.