They'd seen family members killed, they'd often suffered very first-hand.
Still another group of people is converging on Yucatan itself – the very heartland of the Mayan civilization – either to experience the very convulsion first hand or to be the beneficiary of the positive force that it might unleash in its wake depending on which point of view one subscribes to.
Foreigners - especially perhaps Britons who, on the basis of very little first hand experience, still think of America as some sort of petulant child liable to throw a thermonuclear tantrum when denied its ice-cream, always get New York, not to say the rest of the republic over which they used to fly en route to a ski-lodge in Colorado or the Golden Gate Bridge, wrong.
At 25, Riaz doesn't claim the genius that made Miyazaki a giant, but the film he's currently directing and composing, The Glassworker, now raising funds on Kickstarter, is about to rock the indsutry by becoming Pakistan's very first completely hand-animated feature film.
He's going to keep his hands like he's using a clicker to advance a Powerpoint slide but has lost the clicker (right hand) and an arm transplant patient honking a titty for the very first time (left hand), and he doesn't care if one arm is lower than the other or not, because he's Elton fucking John.
Druckmann describes the very first story treatment, hand-written across three pages of a notebook.
Unlike Ginsberg, Williams's experience of mental illness was very much second hand.
A second had no complaints about his investment but noted he had bought extra machines very cheaply, second hand.
While high-end motor yachts boast everything from heli-pads to jacuzzis, according to Jeff Erdman, a broker with Allied Marine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, you can pick up a very simple second hand motor boat for as little as $500 and, from around $3,500, a 17ft centre console boat in good condition.
Apt, then, that on his very first day as the Hand Gove should have got trapped in the loo.
