1.   None of it registered, because she was fighting tears that were perilously near.

2.   Ruth blurted, fighting her tears.

3.   And she was fighting tears again.

4.   Fighting tears, her chin quivering and mouth puckering, Negrete whispers that it would be better to find out her baby, her first-born, was dead.

5.   He fought tears the next day, wondering if he had made a terrible decision.

6.   Janet Drew fought tears one more time.

7.   Joe fights the tears all day, then cries all the way home.

8.   Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, fought tears.

9.   She looked away to fight tears.

10.   With the radio turned low, he lay in bed and listened to the game, trying to fight the tears.