51.   It is part of the American political tradition to complain about the system of nominating presidential candidates.

52.   It was a peaceful political demonstration, a cherished American tradition.

53.   It was an old-fash ioned, mean-spirited effort at voter intimidation, which is another dis gusting American tradition.

54.   It has become an American tradition.

55.   It was part of the American tradition just as much as hand-cranked ice cream and Sunday afternoons spent on the front porch.

56.   It is an outlook rooted in two distinctive American traditions, said professor Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University.

57.   It was then that Roberts decided to concentrate on the American piano tradition.

58.   Its mere mention tempts us to leap up and cry out the two words that have been sanctified by decades of American journalistic tradition.

59.   It was a gathering in the grand American tradition of people searching for new ways to feel good about themselves.

60.   Jones acted in the truest American tradition, trading anonymity for fame and, perhaps, fortune.