31.   Charles Barkley of the Rockets went to the trouble of posting up emergency Lakers starter Corey Blount only to get more backboard than rim on his first try.

32.   Coachman cleared the height on her first try.

33.   Defying the odds, she achieved a successful pregnancy on her first try at in vitro fertilization.

34.   Don Sweeney attempted to clear the puck, but he failed on the first try and fanned on the second.

35.   Every single one of the votes, Collins said, was unanimous on the first try.

36.   First try a mild detergent and a scrub brush and rinse with a garden hose.

37.   Flowers emerged from her first try feeling as though her back and neck had been tortured.

38.   For instance, we got pregnant on the first try.

39.   For the pianists Ksenia Kouzmenko and Lorraine Min, and the percussionists Doug Wallace and Michael Laven, it was their first try at this knotty, vibrant piece.

40.   Gortarez has never done pigtails before, but he gets it right on the first try.