41.   Needless to say, my daughter and I were floored that he made the connection between the empty chair and his great-grandpa.

42.   One Korean city, Kwangju, found itself paying for platoons of idle Chinese interpreters and for Chinese opera singers playing to empty chairs.

43.   Only the United States Senate, with its arcane rules and members who are comfortable speaking at length to empty chairs, could find itself in such a mess.

44.   PHOENIX -- There will be one seat that goes unused over the weekend, an empty green chair out of reach from swooping scalpers and bandwagon millionaires.

45.   Restaurant meals can be difficult, when the single traveler faces an empty chair, is seated by the kitchen door or receives indifferent or even hostile service.

46.   Richardson did not attend the game, but there was an empty chair on the team bench with his trademark towel draped over it.

47.   Seating the woman at a small table against the wall near the kitchen, he gestures to the empty chair across from her.

48.   She motions to the table and he takes an empty chair.

49.   She slid over to the next seat and patted the empty chair she had just vacated.

50.   She took the elevator to the top floor and entered a large, sterile room with rows of empty chairs.