1.   Because she does succeed in digging up sordid true stories that are surpassingly strange, there is even a real Aunt Tillie to be found.

2.   Every detail of this sordid story has had to be dragged from the reluctant archdiocese, mostly by the dogged investigative reporting of The Boston Globe.

3.   I have written the entire sordid story in the pages accompanying this epistle . . .

4.   In the name of national security, the Bush administration has stripped us of our right to scrutinize the public records that could unravel this sordid story.

5.   It also is the definitive overview of a sordid story that ate away at the country like a cancer.

6.   It is the sad, devastating fact of that betrayal that remains with the viewer more than its sordid story of sex.

7.   It was a sad chapter in the sordid story of Iron Mike Tyson, a street punk who never has learned to be a man.

8.   No audience, no sordid stories.

9.   The rest of this sordid story is old news now.

10.   The sordid story of how it all came about and what the move means to image-conscious Charlotte and image-seeking New Orleans.