First, in the form of a 30-9 pummeling Sunday by the Miami Dolphins, a loss that left some players humiliated, others dumbfounded but all grasping for answers.
There were objectors of course: first in the form of a feminist take by Adrienne Truscott, and then a full brawl broke out, with the True Australian Patriots (Anne Edmonds, Damien Power and Greg Larsen) chanting, "Leftie scum!".
Now due for release in 2013, the company's long-awaited all-British wristwatch will be handmade, in house; and promises a horologic first in the form of a miniaturized George Daniels double-impulse chronometer escapement.
In fact, he cranks out what he calls "penny dreadful" prose with enviable facility, first in the form of a weekly newspaper serial called "The Mysteries of Barcelona" — his hometown — and later, under the pseudonym Ignatius B. Samson, in a monthly series of books entitled "City of the Damned," which demands, he says, a steady pace of 6.66 pages a day.
A closing of the frontiers, at first in the form of a measure of customs policy but extended later in a military sense affecting also traffic and communications, was imposed with the object of bringing about the political exhaustion and economic destruction of this German community.
It materialized over cyberspace, first in the form of a misguided Twitter post fired off by the team's most controversial player, and then in a scathing response by General Manager Brian Cashman, whose already waning patience with Alex Rodriguez was tested yet again.
First it comes in the form of a Which?
First a few facts, in the form of a disclosure statement.
First in the form of self-managed teams, and now increasingly in the form of self-managing organizations.
James' first assignment in the playoffs came in the form of a very old friend.
It exists today in the form of a bound volume containing the first and third rolls while the second roll is preserved in its original form.
