21.   On Saturday Corkum admitted that time has sort of smoothed over his ruffled feathers.

22.   President Clinton has dispatched two senior State Department officials to South Korea to soothe some ruffled feathers in Seoul.

23.   Sometimes that unflinching honesty has ruffled feathers.

24.   The agency has ruffled feathers at the World Bank by criticizing the bank for its lofty advice to peasant nations on how to tighten their belts.

25.   The grouse arrived in a maelstrom of ruffled feathers, loud and quick, swooping down from a fir tree, then trotted up and sat next to me.

26.   The German government, in a statement issued Monday, sought to smooth ruffled Chinese feathers.

27.   Then he helped soothe ruffled feathers and play Democratic Party bickering.

28.   They have to smooth ruffled feathers when one person offends another.

29.   White House spokesman Mike McCurry tried to smooth ruffled feathers on Capitol Hill.

30.   With their ruffled gray feathers and beady orange eyes, the gawky, flightless birds wear a look of perpetual befuddlement.