71.   Pippen and Mourning began a series of shoves trying to get position as Johnson shot free throws on the Charlotte end.

72.   Ruth began a series of entreaties, including tempting Marina with the Spring-Summer Sears, Roebuck catalog, but to no avail.

73.   Republicans continued to be too busy calling each other names to fully focus on the president, who began a series of high-minded commencement addresses.

74.   Shastay began a series of moves north.

75.   She began a series of victory parties and was holding an event last night at Underwood in Skamania County.

76.   Schiff plays all the major keyboard works of Bach, a series he began last month at Lincoln Center and completes in the fall at Carnegie Hall.

77.   So I began a series of phone calls, and I started hanging out at the fax machine.

78.   Soon after that, the Earth entered an ice age, and began a series of oscillations between glacial and interglacial periods that has continued until the present time.

79.   Sovich and other union leaders will begin a series of membership meetings around the U.S. next week.