41.   San Antonio is still interested, and could offer Perdue straight up, since the Clippers desperately need a center.

42.   Simms thought Thomas would run more across the middle into the hole in the zone rather than straight up the field.

43.   So count the seconds down, toast the new year and then take a second to go outside and look straight up.

44.   So maybe Calhoun will do the unthinkable and ask Voskuhl to handle Brand straight up.

45.   She said she likes vodka martinis, straight up with an olive.

46.   So in the cozy confines of a Stubbs opening, you can sometimes have a bourbon slushy or a gin and tonic or a vodka straight up.

47.   That sent me straight up the other night.

48.   The climb to the ruins of Dunstein was straight up and when we rested for breath, another hiker asked my wife Alice whether we were Americans.

49.   The facts seemed fairly straight up.

50.   The hungry dinosaurs have the ability to sign Olajuwon straight up as a free agent, with no need for a sign-and-trade arrangement.