51.   On a summer afternoon, Skoog is tuned into a weightlifting competition on television, splayed across a blue arm chair in worn olive T-shirt and heavy leather suspenders.

52.   On hot summer afternoons, fans would line up to douse themselves and cool off.

53.   On this pleasant summer afternoon, the only weapons in sight are holstered pistols on a pair of fuzzy-faced cops barely out of puberty.

54.   One afternoon this summer, Said was in his office at Columbia for the first time in weeks.

55.   On a sweltering summer afternoon, she is in bed, frail and frightened, waiting for her doctor to arrive.

56.   One summer afternoon, members of the National Security Council followed him out to the putting green to finish a discussion of Bosnia.

57.   On hot summer afternoons, some people show more than the horses that run third.

58.   Plan on touring here in the middle of a sultry summer afternoon and pausing at the Victorian Ice Cream Parlor for a hot fudge sundae.

59.   Rodriguez remembered the crack of his bat smacking baseballs on blinding summer afternoons.

60.   She grew up as a self-described tomboy who spent her summer afternoons jumping railroad tracks.