51.   The whole Christmas pudding idea really took off with the Victorians, when it became a dessert rather than a first course.

52.   Then an idea takes hold.

53.   There is no mystery why the idea has taken root.

54.   Today, the two octogenarians are frankly amazed at how the idea has taken off.

55.   Two weeks later, Schmela backed out of the project, but the idea had taken hold and Fischer decided to go it alone.

56.   When the idea first took hold of me, it was very much like an illumination, a revelation, and my very first reaction was to retreat.

57.   Even though he lost to Marat Safin in the second round, the idea had already taken hold.

58.   He said the idea may take a few years to be implemented.

59.   His second idea takes into account the power of example on Filipinos.

60.   Needless to say, a weak Japanese economy will make it that much more difficult for the idea to take off.