41.   It is a familiar theme, sounded at various times by world religious leaders, politicians and politically minded celebrities.

42.   It was the Senate campaign of the century, but it sounded at first like a joke.

43.   Mario Cuomo, ex-governor of New York, was on the radio and at first it sounded like his standard stump speech.

44.   Other people sound at ease, but too perfect, too pat.

45.   Similar themes were sounded at the conference.

46.   So did some statements, official and unofficial, that sounded innocuous at the time but were anything but that.

47.   So, Sunday, when the final buzzer sounded at the Superdome, Ivory, the Penn State guard, took the basketball and flung it in the air.

48.   That sounds reasonable at first, but what it means is a real-dollar freeze of federal spending.

49.   The Academy of Ancient Music, a British ensemble, plays Baroque and early classical music as it sounded at the time it was written.

50.   The name, which sounded awful at first, was gradually gaining acceptance.