1.   And so a road swing with so much promise took a powder.

2.   But look what happens when one parent takes a powder.

3.   But the drop-outs snowballed as the week wore on, and they reached critical mass Thursday when the entire morning lineup after Norman took a powder.

4.   But with a mike in his face, his fluency can sometimes take a powder, leaving him in embarrassing silence.

5.   Congress urges us to stay calm and go about our business while the entire House takes a powder at the first sign of powder.

6.   Even the basketball gods took a powder on the Sonics.

7.   Even if the junta takes a payoff and takes a powder, the damage to superpower credibility has been considerable.

8.   Inside, five publishers and a couple of football teams worth of editors took charge, then took a powder.

9.   Remember that while Yosemite Sam takes a powder, he does get up to fight the rabbit again.

10.   She acknowledged that it takes the powder out of that explosive first step.