51.   Before Brodie even stepped off the plane, she had booked another flight to San Francisco and a hotel room for the night.

52.   Before each inning, Dodgers left-hander Joey Eischen steps off the mound, turns his back to home plate and lowers his head.

53.   Before letting F. Lee Bailey step off the witness stand Tuesday after five tedious days of testimony, U.S. Magistrate James Glazebrook personally quizzed him about his finances.

54.   Before the program opened, Gore arrived here triumphantly, stepping off Air Force Two for a rally at the Burbank airport with Lieberman and their families.

55.   A few yards ahead, he slowed to a walk, looked back and stepped just off the sidewalk into the grass.

56.   A group of Americans stepping off their bus in Manger Square in Bethlehem were unaware that they were in the West Bank.

57.   A grizzled Gray stepped off the elevator, carrying a bottle of Poland Spring.

58.   A stranger steps off a train into an unsuspecting little town.

59.   A year ago, they at least could say they had simply stepped off the curb into the path of a runaway tractor-trailer bound for history and gotten smashed.

60.   According to plate umpire Terry Craft, who made the call, Wakefield started his motion and then stepped off the rubber.