Brown got his first inkling of his current quarry in 2003, when he led a team that found Sedna, an object a bit smaller than both Eris and Pluto.
Their father, who returned home just hours after the last of his children died, got his first inkling of unspeakable calamity when his youngest ones weren't there to clamber all over him as he walked in the door.
His first inkling that anything was wrong with his health came when his thumb started to twitch, in 2004.
One woman in particular, Shireen, seems to have voluntarily entered into a relationship with him, causing him to fall in love for the first time, and prompting his first inkling of the error of his ways.
According to "The Time of Their Lives," a 2008 book by Al Silverman about independent publishers, Mr. Guinzburg had his first inkling that the book business was in his future at age 9, when his father gave him the manuscript of the children's classic "Ferdinand the Bull".
Bush got his first inkling of a metallic link during his Ph.D. research on b-amyloid precursor protein (APP), which enzymes snip apart to produce b amyloid.
Mesum said he believed that God chose to bestow such talent on him "to show other children that if children at the age of 2 could spread the message, why can't you?" Mesum's father, Syed Naqvi, called his son "God-gifted" and said he had his first inkling of the boy's ability when he heard him reproducing nauhas played in the house.
In 1991 he got his first inkling of Balanchine when he learned "Valse Fantasie" for his graduation performance.
He had his first inkling that he might one day design cars at age 5, when he was riding in his father's Saab near their home in suburban Copenhagen.
Early on, his first inkling of the trust fund was not of the money involved, since the trust was filled with Carnation shares, to him pretty meaningless.
