71.   Tom Menino has been a ferocious lobbyist, and Kennedy has been furiously slapping backs and twisting arms beyond the view of the working press.

72.   Tobacco is winning because we twisted the arms of nations until they cried Uncle Sam.

73.   Traditionally, parish councils attracted so little interest that pastors or lay leaders had to twist arms, ever so gingerly, to fill slots in uncontested elections.

74.   While tension ran high inside the annual meeting, the hall outside seethed with people twisting arms and arguing their case for and against Gibson.

75.   Will Kraft, a league insider and chairman of its finance committee, surrender his fight for Hartford if Tagliabue twists arms to consider Foxboro?

76.   Working the phones and twisting arms, he succeeded.

77.   Yet with one vote for each far-flung partner, it can be difficult to twist arms, particularly at a firm that tries to foster an egalitarian culture.

78.   Brackens said somebody in the pile twisted his arm behind his back.

79.   Ed Alvarez, its first president, twisted the arms of the resource persons for the first few seminars.

80.   Just as the rally was dispersing, police officers rushed at the students and seized six of them, twisting their arms and throwing them into a police van.