21.   Sports memorabilia sales will include tin cups, shackles and guns carved from soap.

22.   The only thing missing from Major League Baseball is a tin cup and monkey.

23.   The National Governors Conference met in Washington this week amid the unpleasant sound of rattling tin cups.

24.   The question then is why President Clinton must use the tin cup to collect money to defend himself in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case.

25.   There may have been better finals, but none more rousing and dramatic, thanks to the beggar who rattled his tin cup and the probabilities to become king.

26.   This is about the state university selling out, about our great leaders putting their tin cups out like beggars.

27.   This is all the more true now that the nation is carrying a tin cup in one hand and nuclear bombs in the other.

28.   This rattling of the tin cup may not constitute, as several European commentators suggested this week, a humiliation of Clinton.

29.   Usually we think of arts organizations as beggars holding out tin cups for funding.

30.   Victor, a lieutenant in the Russian army, raised a battered tin cup and offered a toast.