61.  Even peanuts, the closest thing to an appetizer my ancestors ever knew, take on a different feel when chilly weather comes.

62.  Even with a decent-sized antenna, the picture looked like the closest thing the Hill Country would ever see to a blizzard.

63.  Fighting out loud is the closest thing we have to a cure, until something better comes along.

64.  Every year, thousands of caribou stage a migration there that is the closest thing we have to the thundering wildebeest movements in East Africa.

65.  For Alabama residents, lotteries in Georgia and Florida remain the closest thing to having their own.

66.  Football training camp is the closest thing most of them will ever come to incarceration.

67.  For Glacier, this is the closest thing to a traffic jam.

68.  For people who hate to pay full price, mutual funds that invest abroad offer the closest thing to an end-of-winter sale.

69.  For many years, her house in Georgetown was the closest thing to a salon for people who made the capital go.

70.  For the rest of us, this book may be the closest thing we get to a seat in the theater.