1.   At a recent charity event in Washington, Dodd and Hutchison traded baby tales rather than policy talk.

2.   At lunch, Tim and I traded tales.

3.   Fans of all loyalties seemed delighted to be searched, and they traded tales of the items that had been detected on their persons.

4.   Minutes after starting their meeting, Sculley and his younger brother were drinking beer with the entrepreneurs and trading tales about growing up on Long Island.

5.   Saudis love to trade tales of royals muscling in on profitable businesses, appropriating land or flogging their grace-and-favor tickets on the national airline.

6.   Two women in the next booth at lunch may discuss E-mail or trade tales about an analog kind of fellow.

7.   Years and years ago, these friends traded tales of childbirth.

8.   Historians and former CIA and KGB agents will be trading tales about the intelligence wars at the epicenter of East-West espionage.

9.   Two Kenyan women jokingly traded tales from the trenches.