41.   His pickoff against Humphries was his first as a Patriot.

42.   I admit this blueprint struck me at first as unpromising at best, self-indulgent at worst.

43.   I proposed holding two concerts in Moscow, the first as conductor, and the second to perform Prokofiev and maybe Shostakovich.

44.   In his second season as an assistant in New Jersey, Robinson won his seventh Stanley Cup, first as a coach.

45.   In his first as starter, he is showing Gilbride just what he wanted to see.

46.   In the labor movement, he was associated with the Negro American Labor Council, first as vice president and later as president.

47.   In their third season in Tennessee and their first as the Titans, it seems as if the Oilers had plastic surgery and received heart transplants.

48.   It is Richard Burton who comes off as dissolute, drinking at first as something of a sport, then to dull his growing unhappiness.

49.   It was obviously curious for Torre to allow Posada to make his major league debut at first as the one-night replacement for the slumping Tino Martinez.

50.   It was the team that was his first as a Winston Cup car owner, the one that he and Allison had such a great working relationship with.