first acquaintance
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Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
“First Essay,” on first acquaintance, at least, seems a mild and modest work, hardly the stuff of grand designs.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2016
And he made his first acquaintance with Bulgaria’s most powerful man.
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2012
Its narrative follows Mr. Milchan through his first acquaintance with the arms business via his father’s company, through his introduction to Israel’s nuclear program by Mr. Peres and the Lakam chief, Benjamin Blumberg.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2011
The author gives a brief sketch of Mormonism, and among other things inserts a letter or statement written by Isaac Hale, the father-in-law of Jo Smith, giving some account of his first acquaintance with Smith.
From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.
