1.   Young children who have a history of being hit sometimes flinch when adults come too close.

2.   As news of the abuse scandal has spread nationally, Catholic adults increasingly have come forward with youthful memories of abusive priests.

3.   Adults are coming up the Sacramento to spawn.

4.   Adults came out of rooms to beckon gift-givers in to make sure their children received something for Christmas.

5.   Adults come by to shake his hand.

6.   Adults come entirely of their own volition, he says.

7.   If the desultory teen-age prattle seems utterly real, the shallow, mean-spirited adults come off as caricatures.

8.   In the process, adults have come to accept as normal what once upset and shocked us, including the marketing of sexuality to young children.

9.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is unquestionably right that the city cannot fully protect abused children unless concerned adults come forward in a direct and unambiguous manner.

10.   Four adults came.