51.   He said he did not have the nerve to protest.

52.   He had no nerve.

53.   He never had the nerve to read it until Friday, and the raw wounds it exposed are too personal, too painful to share publicly, he said.

54.   He said there was a health clinic at his school where students could get condoms, if they had the nerve.

55.   He was snapping at questions from anyone who had the nerve to question the deal.

56.   He was fired and then had the nerve to apply for unemployment compensation, the manager said.

57.   He was staring at me, amazed that anyone had the nerve to speak such lousy Spanish.

58.   His first anecdote on his first CBS show was about a broadcast-center security guard who had the nerve not to recognize him.

59.   How could this loutish teen-ager, this unrepentant junior Nazi, have the nerve to tell me so many lies?

60.   I did not have the nerve to confront the teacher on this, since I was on rather shaky moral ground.