Her 1987 memoir, which has been updated, provides "a rare firsthand glimpse by a Westerner into the hidden realm of Saudi social and public life," Elaine Sciolino wrote here.

He also had a firsthand glimpse of the awesome power of Tau-tau.

The seminary was a center of abolitionist sentiment, and a trip to nearby Kentucky provided the young woman with her only firsthand glimpse of slavery.

R. A young man (Loren Dean) gets a firsthand glimpse of 1930's mob life as a protege of the gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman).

As a result, human rights workers gave her a firsthand glimpse of Rwandan life (and death - thousands of skulls and skeletons remained from the slaughter).

And they expect that after the program is shown, they will have an onslaught of tourists eager to catch their own firsthand glimpse of the park's animal-rich watering holes.

Seeing Western Practices But his primary mission was a firsthand glimpse of Western accounting practices and of the various regulatory and professional bodies that allow the system to work.

His eyes looked so big she imagined peeking into his head, looking around inside, and getting a firsthand glimpse of a madman's brain.

As an exchange student at Leningrad University in the summer of 1969, I had a sobering firsthand glimpse of life under Communism.

The site visit was meant to give officials and neighbors a firsthand glimpse of what would go and what would stay.