They are not so much first-hand memoirs of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birth Of Rice-A-Roni: The Armenian-Italian Treat] Reference

Much of the dialogue is verbatim from first-hand accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Roach, Steve Carell Pair Up For 'Schmucks'] Reference

"Russia has first-hand experience with terrorism," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Around The World ...] Reference

You've had first-hand experience with trying to "save the games.".    From Wordnik.com.  [China and the Olympics] Reference

AOL knows first-hand how tricky M&A can be in such a fast-changing sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Aging Internet Companies Reinvent Themselves?] Reference

When and how did he acquire the first-hand knowledge to make that comparison?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus.] Reference

Second, I saw first-hand how organizations like mine are making a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne C. Richard: Surviving the Blame Game in Haiti] Reference

They know -- and have been seeing the loss of wetlands first-hand for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Gulf Oil Blowout and Gusher: Environmental Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing?] Reference

Mr. Pena saw that first-hand when they traded Carlos Beltran to Houston in 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, Royals: Where Is Pena's Plaque?] Reference

In case you're wondering how this feels, let me tell you from first-hand experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lori Culwell: Social Media for Writers: Get in There and Prove Them Wrong!] Reference

He championed the idea of giving away free ice, and he saw first-hand how it was being used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Stewart Talks Historic New York Heat Wave With Ed Kohn: Was It Hotter Than 2010?] Reference

And they get first-hand feedback when white House Assistant Chef Sam Kass serves as guest judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Chef DC: Season 7 Coverage & How Things Stand] Reference

Few of the Avastin panelists had any first-hand clinical experience with metastatic breast cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Avastin Mugging] Reference

Ken is an insurance agent who knows first-hand how expensive and inadequate health plans can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s health forum includes 5 who told us their stories] Reference

I saw first-hand how difficult life was for single mothers trying to make a good life for their kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bella DePaulo: Myth-Busting Book About Sex, Marriage, Family, and Celebrity Scholars] Reference

Certainly no armchair travelers, Sagittarians crave first-hand experiences and have a thirst for knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yvonne Yorke: Choose Your Next Vacation Spot by Astrology?] Reference

But almost all of them were from students who had never studied with her and so had no first-hand knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digging For Dirt] Reference

Both really know their stuff and both have now written first-hand accounts of their bouts with the swine flu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swine flu symptoms from celebs who have had it] Reference

Like Kessel, Melville had first-hand memories of the Resistance, having served in the Underground in his 20s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprise, Surprise!] Reference

My mentor, the Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, had experienced first-hand the horrors of totalitarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pattakos: Philosopher Hypatia: An Inspiration for the Ages] Reference

Erin Andrews, who came to the Hill Tuesday to plead for tougher stalking laws, has raw, first-hand experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPN's Erin Andrews lobbies for tougher anti-stalking laws] Reference

Scots editors fielded phone calls from south-of-the-border public and press anxious to hear the news first-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naming Names] Reference

Malone, a master strategist, could benefit immensely from first-hand knowledge of where AOL Time Warner may be headed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megawatt Mogulfest] Reference

Ed Schlegel is a retired Fire Captain in California who has first-hand experience with responding to a chemical disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Radford: A Firefighter Speaks Out On the Need for Real Chemical Security] Reference

These lines don't deny the worth of spiritual journeying, but they tell us that there is no substitute for first-hand experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Walking the Pathless Path] Reference

Peach writes about her experience working on the Summerwind in a first-hand account published by the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Greene's Yacht Described As 'Sex, Drugs, And Techno Music' By Former Stewardess (VIDEO)] Reference

Sherrod experienced racism at its worst, first-hand, with the death of her father, killed by a white man never brought to justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermene Hartman: The Shirley Sherrod Debacle: Heads Should Roll] Reference

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross has first-hand experience negotiating with unions, including the USW, to sustain U.S. manufacturing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs] Reference

"Over the years, my constituents have provided me with many good ideas from their first-hand perspectives on our transportation needs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Connolly to slug to work] Reference

We don't have any first-hand reports of the new United service just yet, but since it's Gogo service, we're expecting much of the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference

Such concerns are hardly new, but gritty first-hand r eports from the field have a way of crystallizing such problems in readers 'minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [As in Nixon's Time, Revelations Feed War Doubts] Reference

Unfortunately, we can't all go to Florence and experience first-hand what it is like to eat extremely good food served in small portions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Chowing Down in Florence] Reference

Because of that, Soviet leaders -- many of whom knew that history from first-hand experience -- always kept the city under close scrutiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Leningrad To St. Petersburg] Reference

Could he be witnessing first-hand the human toll of over thirty years of no-rules, extract and exploit, corporate controlled globalization?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Callicrate: History Repeated] Reference

It places excessive value upon lab results and the statistical abstractions of research studies while it downplays the reality of the patient's first-hand experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution?] Reference

With the Deepwater Horizon gusher capped off and reports that the oil was vanishing from the gulf, I decided it was a good time to visit the area to examine it first-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Gulf Oil Blowout and Gusher: Environmental Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing?] Reference