21.  As a consequence, the agency had sometimes hired agents "blindly, without thorough vetting and established procedures for accountability," Deutch said.

22.  Despite a sometimes gruff demeanor, Roundtree was always trying to coax the junkies and drunks who came to his soup kitchen to stick around and get clean.

23.  Cup and saucer vine (Cobaea scandens), sometimes called monastery vine, will train itself up a trellis, too.

24.  Curators in Giverny, where Claude Monet made his home in northern France, sometimes refuse to admit big tour groups when the gardens are in full bloom.

25.  Derek Jeter is embarrassed by teen-agers cooing his name, so his colleagues sometimes do their best 14-year-old female impressions.

26.  Despite Clinton's frequent and sometimes unseemly fund-raising, Republicans at last count were out-drawing Democrats $147 million to $84 million.

27.  DeLorenzo is one of the growing number of men following a recent trend in the men's style scene: fitted clothing, sometimes with a touch of feminity.

28.  Current and former employees said it had become bureaucratic, gangling, and, sometimes, slow-footed.

29.  Current viral gene carriers take hours and sometimes days to deliver their genetic cargo, and pose some risks.

30.  Desecrating the game can be awful lot of fun sometimes.