31.   Babel writes of a mostly Jewish town in Volhynia, a territory in a stretch crisscrossed by the two armies.

32.   Based on the first hour, this good-looking show is the best written of the season.

33.   Bishop Hugh MacMahon did write of the troubles, yet he concluded that the laws made life difficult but not unbearable.

34.   Bolles wrote of mob involvement in land fraud scams, gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, extortion, burglary and narcotics.

35.   A few wrote of witnessing or being involved in a disastrous incident like a train wreck or an automobile accident.

36.   A close high school friend, Bill Bleyer, a Newsday reporter, wrote of their school days in the paper Monday.

37.   A group of Chinese-American scholars found that the carvings were of hundreds of poems by detainees writing of their plight.

38.   A Mexican-American poet writes of the mingling of cultures, referring to Aztec goddesses and the Virgin Mary, holy water and the rivers of Central America.

39.   Alexander writes of a second, similar relationship, with television actress Elaine Joyce, which began with a piece of fan mail from the reclusive New Hampshire author.

40.   Alea wrote of the moment Almeida realized the Americans were no longer working beside them.