21.   The first blast rocked the neighborhood just after midnight, causing a fright among nighttime revelers.

22.   The first blasts, on Christmas Eve in the town of Worcester, killed four people, three of them children, and injured dozens more.

23.   The first blast went through a window, just above the headboard of a bed in the bedroom where a nephew was sleeping.

24.   The egrets and herons begin returning in mid-February, and the families begin their migration with the first blast of cold wind.

25.   The only good thing about going to the movies in the summer is walking out of the movies and savoring that first blast of hot, humid air.

26.   The second, more powerful bomb detonated as scores of soldiers were scrambling to assist victims of the first blast.

27.   Time for the first blast of flatulence.

28.   Today, after the first harsh blasts of winter, half a million or more people are homeless and half-starved inside Afghanistan.

29.   We also kill those cockroaches unfortunate enough to get caught in the first blast or two of a new man-made chemical weapon.

30.   When he heard the first blast, he said, he ducked into a fruit store.