61.   Inside the control room, it was all thumbs-up signs and popping champagne corks as the last of three important technological confirmations of probe separation registered.

62.   Never mind that the champagne corks were half-popped and the Presidents Cup was won by the Internationals before they made the turn after nine holes.

63.   Only a champagne stubborn cork, which took several minutes to remove, slowed the celebration.

64.   Senior party lieutenants, who while watching results on TV in his elegant Pristina drawing room, stopped popping champagne corks and passing slivers of chocolate cake.

65.   Several times fans were warned by the chair umpire for popping champagne corks.

66.   The clock struck twelve, the champagne corks popped and sparklers glittered under decorative pine boughs.

67.   WHEN judgement day finally arrived, only a few champagne corks were popped but rivers of tears flowed.

68.   Winners popped champagne corks and fended off bank representatives eager to manage the newly created personal fortunes.

69.   Those for other wines are made out of a single piece of cork, but a champagne cork consists of two segments plus an agglomerated body.

70.   Take the Spark, regarded by experts in the business as the Rolls-Royce of champagne corks.