31.   As one of them, Seitzer is days away from that first taste of postseason action.

32.   At Brooklyn Ms. Salas learned how to communicate with others and received her first taste of the promising opportunities before her.

33.   At Opal Canyon Road we got our first taste of driving in the dirt.

34.   At Sasabune, another Formica-clad hole-in-the-wall, we had our first taste of traditional Edo-era sushi, made with warm rice.

35.   At fortysomething, she got her first taste of the delicacy.

36.   At the City College of New York, Powell majored in geology and got his first taste of military life as a cadet in the ROTC.

37.   A clotheshorse with a sense of social occasion, she gave Americans their first taste of a genuine homegrown aristocracy.

38.   A suburban Bay Area teenager gets his first taste of the culinary life washing dishes in his church kitchen.

39.   After a decade of shooting at clay pigeons, Armstrong loves his first taste of big-game hunting.

40.   All three got their first taste of the NHL in the last couple of weeks.