31.   When the waiter popped the cork, they flung themselves to the ground for safety.

32.   You can be assured that somewhere in Virginia, Rangers manager Johnny Oates celebrated the news by popping the cork on a vintage bottle of Hawaiian punch.

33.   Party leaders who moments earlier were popping champagne corks and passing slivers of chocolate cake paused in astonishment, quietly looking at their hands.

34.   College football, though, has popped the cork on a brand new one.

35.   Flanked by her lawyers and parents, she popped the cork on a bottle of champagne in a garden in Charleston and filled their glasses.

36.   He popped the cork on a giant bottle of champagne and sprayed it on his shore crew.

37.   Hollywood should pause, however, before popping champagne corks.

38.   Inside the control room, it was all thumbs-up signs and popping champagne corks as the last of three important technological confirmations of probe separation registered.

39.   On the third Thursday of every November, France pops the cork on its yearly crop of the young wine, made from the fast-fermenting Gamay grape.

40.   On the third Thursday of each November, France pops the cork on its yearly crop of the young wine, made from the fast-fermenting Gamay grape.