71.   Gina would gamble away thousands of dollars in casinos just for the thrill of it.

72.   Given a real cause to fight for, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens would volunteer to help overthrow Stalin.

73.   Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.

74.   He also has donated thousands of dollars to poor people in the town for help in paying medical bills.

75.   He hugged hundreds of babies, shook thousands of hands and cut ribbons at new universities, high-tech factories and a hospital.

76.   He owed thousands of dollars, and his mother had to sell land to bail him out.

77.   He owed thousands of pounds and his mother had to bail him out.

78.   He remembers thinking in amazement that his name also was being flashed on screens in thousands of other movie theaters.

79.   He repeated it thousands of times, like a haywire metronome that had lost its beat.