41.   The U.S. squad is minus indoor national champions Michael Johnson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Gwen Torrence.

42.   There are several squads in the tournament that are not only deep and defensive-minded, but fit that psychological profile.

43.   They form cliques that a decade ago might have been merely vocally abusive but today are assault squads.

44.   They thought this squad was bigger, stronger, faster, deeper, tougher.

45.   True, the squad was uninterested in composers writing tonal music, but it did not condemn them, and certainly never controlled them.

46.   What the Knicks have going for them is that Charles Oakley is back, and the squad is playoff tested.

47.   Witnesses said she fell during a short burst of fire from two locations that the antisniper squad was not watching, an apparent coordinated attack at a random target.

48.   You knew who the home squad was because folks cheered louder for them.

49.   A demining squad was busy in a building where an unexploded bomb had landed.

50.   A de-mining squad was busy in a building where an unexploded bomb had landed.