41.   He was the last to enter the hearing room, a vast chamber of polished wood and blue velvet, decorated with gold stars and massive American eagle.

42.   His anger sounded freshly honed as he whispered at the back of a hearing room.

43.   His portrait loomed over the hearing room.

44.   His wife, Brenda, sat behind him Thursday in a hearing room in the basement of the Capitol.

45.   However, conflict is still being played out in hearing rooms and cornfields.

46.   Ickes, whose wife sat behind him in the hearing room, acknowledged that mistakes were made in the campaign, without saying by whom.

47.   If a cow had lumbered into the hearing room, members of one party might have called it a horse, members of the other a pig.

48.   In a hearing room packed with the press and spectators, Perot spoke for nearly two hours to four Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee.

49.   In a crush of news media outside the hearing room, Quackenbush said he will proceed only on the advice of his attorney.

50.   In a wood-paneled hearing room packed with supporters and opposition groups, Santorum testified that the initiative would help smaller congregations in mostly poor minority neighborhoods.