31.   Grappling with their first major piece of legislation this year, House members found themselves falling into a series of unusual alliances.

32.   Gore has promised to make the latter the first piece of legislation that he sends to Congress as president.

33.   He brought with him the first piece of air mail ever delivered to Fort Worth.

34.   He does not remember what that first piece was because within a few days of being out of the water it had decomposed almost completely.

35.   Her mother allowed the girl to sell her first piece of pottery to a Santa Fe dealer.

36.   Her first pieces were a tiny teardrop and a small silver bud vase, both to wear around the neck.

37.   His first piece was a print of French painter Bernard Buffet that he found in a Mexico City gallery.

38.   His first piece was a whimsical look at what would happen if Jesse Helms had to answer questions at his own confirmation hearing.

39.   I bought my first piece of Avanos pottery, a glazed turquoise platter, at Chez Efe, a shop near the riverbank.

40.   Immediately after that, the first lengthy piece in the show was an interview with Tom Hanks.