51.   She considered the empty chair where her stepmother used to sit and watch television.

52.   The Celtics will kick off an eight-game Western swing here Tuesday night against the pitiful Nuggets before the usual empty hearts and empty chairs at McNichols Arena.

53.   The commercial cuts to students carrying their lunch on trays, vainly looking for an empty chair in a crowded lunchroom.

54.   The families set aside two empty chairs in their memory.

55.   The four Graham victims sat next to each other at the news conference with one empty chair at the table marked for Bobby Lambert.

56.   The Kiwanis Club leaves an empty chair in memory of Ms. Bunnell at its regular breakfast meetings at the Wilderness Restaurant.

57.   The two candidates were separated by an empty chair.

58.   The trophy was leaning on an empty chair next to assistant coach Trent Johnson, who was chowing down on a postgame box lunch.

59.   There I sat, sampling each delicious course as it came, surrounded by seven empty chairs.

60.   There is an empty chair at the table and a hollowness in this place that comes with the death of the person who made the house a home.