51.   He grew up on a farm in Virginia and said that years of hardship have made him distrustful of white authority figures.

52.   He had to make it up as he went along, while the girls squealed and the authority figures harrumphed.

53.   He had become our authority figure, a reassuring presence who told riveting stories about past subway rescues and who seemed to know every vagrant on the trains.

54.   He can be stubborn and impatient, and has trouble with authority figures.

55.   He is more a leader and less an authority figure.

56.   He is an authority figure whose authority derives from his strategic willingness to deconstruct that authority.

57.   He seems an unlikely authority figure, this slender man with an unruly head of thinning blond hair.

58.   He was always matter-of-fact about his illegal activities, and I realized that this was not just teen-age boasting to provoke an authority figure.

59.   He was the provider, the authority figure, the handyman.

60.   His office pays tribute to other authority figures.