21.   On the third try, Palmer was looking to pass but could not find a receiver and took a short loss.

22.   On the third try, he saw two flashes of infrared signals across the black water and sloshed toward them across razor-sharp oyster beds.

23.   On the third try, he shot her, but she survived.

24.   On their third try, Connor and his soldiers sneaked through a fog bank and found the USS Dan anchored not far from the lighthouse across from Sabine Point.

25.   On their third try, they got in.

26.   On his third try, he finally got the debate thing more or less right.

27.   On its third try, Boston Friday night closed out its first-round series against Philadelphia in resounding fashion.

28.   On the third try, Muhammad Ali convinced the woman that it was really him.

29.   Reneberg eventually held serve and then broke on his third try in the next game and the momentum had swung his way.

30.   Seventy-five years after his third try for the top, Mallory was outed by winds that dispersed a snowy coverup, his body intact but frozen stiff.