21.   And the way everybody talked!

22.   And, at last check, the informally dressed quartet from Sherman Oaks seemed to have talked their way past the first line of guards and into the hall.

23.   Athletes talk openly of drugs now the way they once talked of sprained ankles.

24.   At the University of Michigan, where he was a political science major, Zell talked his way into managing some off-campus housing property.

25.   Because he was both smart and bright and friendly and would talk his way out of something like that.

26.   A group of a dozen refugees had talked their way onto the plane.

27.   A truly mean person would call this the Curse of Junior, referring to the gloomy miasma of Ken Griffey Jr., who talked his way out of Seattle.

28.   After that one year, in fact, Templeton talked his way out of St. Louis.

29.   Bryant, a New England native and former New Hampshire state representative, knew how to navigate the political waters, and she talked her way into the project.

30.   Bush talked his way to a middle, non-newsworthy ground.