51.   The Mets are a feel-good story these days, and there was polite applause for them on Friday night at Turner Field.

52.   The new man arrived to polite applause, not a blaring of trumpets.

53.   Their remarks received polite applause.

54.   Then, polite applause.

55.   There was none of the namby-pamby polite applause that greets the majority of shots, good or bad, in regulation events.

56.   There was polite applause and a brief tipping of champagne at the signing ceremony, but open fraternizing was minimal and there was more earnest formality than celebration.

57.   There was polite applause.

58.   They got polite applause.

59.   To polite applause and the gratitude of the right-thinking, he sat down.

60.   To polite applause, four ethnic Albanian delegates signed the peace plan that would give their people broad autonomy for a three-year interim period.