21.   Even in war, the first casualty, just occasionally, need not be the truth.

22.   Fitzpatrick, the strong-willed chief of his critical Polartec manufacturing business, was the first major casualty.

23.   Girls are the first casualty.

24.   Giuliani had just started his inaugural address when the brittle cold took its first casualty on the dais.

25.   Golden became the first casualty of a new City Charter provision that prohibited borough presidents from holding party leadership positions.

26.   Gao concluded that the woman had AIDS, making the patient the first official casualty of the disease in that province.

27.   He has withdrawn, the first such casualty in the race this year.

28.   Her father, William Quinn, was the first Attica casualty.

29.   His attendance at an annual families conference in Nashville was the first casualty, followed by plans to spend Thanksgiving with relatives in Tennessee.

30.   However, Cheever became the first major casualty when he blew an engine.