21.   More often, Junior and Sissy want to hit the beaches alone.

22.   Once there, she emits a chemical attractant, letting males know she is ready to hit the beach.

23.   Six days after D-Day he hit the beach at Normandy carrying a Thompson submachine gun under his arm and a three-piece fly rod in his pack.

24.   Some people like such sounds so much they actually buy audio tapes of waves hitting the beach.

25.   The Allied invasion forces, preceded by parachutists jumping behind German lines just after midnight, hit the beaches at dawn.

26.   The Finleys like to hit the beach for relaxation.

27.   The Knicks hit the beach.

28.   The next wave of great ones never hit the beach this season.

29.   The second hits the beach at Alang, India, where supertankers are dismantled for scrap.

30.   --The Senate Republican leader gloomily predicts the troops will hit the beaches in two or three weeks.