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Well, after 1977, I broke into The New Yorker and started selling cartoons.
After a kind of long, awkward period of time, Steve broke the silence.
I broke it into a top tier and a second tier of points, and I ranked everything starting at 100 and going all the way down to 91, and listing things like I was looking for somebody who was really smart, who would challenge and stimulate me, and balancing that with a second tier and a second set of points.
Well, that's when all hell broke loose.
The next day I watched again as the matriarch broke a branch and she would put it in her mouth, and then she would break a second one and drop it on the ground.
Close to 50 percent of the cars in our most expensive vehicle category broke the law.
If I want to understand the sinking of the Titanic, the most important thing to do is not to model the little positions of every single little piece of the boat that broke off.
And then tragedy struck, a fire broke out plastic decorations were melting from the ceiling and toxic smoke filled the club.
But there's an important thing to remember here: even though companies pushed back, even though companies demanded, hey, let's do this through a warrant process, let's do this where we actually have some sort of legal review, some sort of basis for handing over these users' data, we saw stories in the Washington Post last year that weren't as well reported as the PRISM story that said the NSA broke in to the data center communications between Google to itself and Yahoo to itself.
The headline says, "NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year."
About three years ago, a Texas woman told something to me that totally broke my heart.
A friend told me that I'm broke not poor, and there is a difference.
That's a really long time to make ends meet if you are broke.
By getting into people's files like that, yeah, they broke the law, but they also forced that company to fix their product.
The men climbed for eight hours straight, and those who made it to the top stayed there until the first break of light, and as soon as light broke, they attacked.
The Germans were surprised, and they took the hill and broke the Gothic Line.
The men who cut her throat then told everyone else, "If you go to university, the day will come when we will kill all of you just like this." Amel died at exactly 5:17 p.m., which we know because when she fell in the street, her watch broke.
Sunita broke centuries-old caste conditioning in India.
It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script.
Our slushy machine broke on the opening night and we didn't know what to do.
I emailed scientists, and they broke through paywalls and sent me their medical journal and science journal articles directly.
This thing ain't broke, so I ain't gonna fix it.
Before they could explore any further, the Crimean War broke out and forestalled their archaeological ambitions for several years.
Unfortunately, during that time, another war broke out between the police and the drug gangs.
In the end, we had to close the business, and that broke my heart.
She was one of those doctors who, if you fell and you broke your arm, she would ask you why you weren't laughing because it's your humerus.
In the process, we broke the record for the longest human-powered polar journey in history by more than 400 miles.
On the way back down to the coast, our crampons — they're the spikes on our boots that we have for traveling over this blue ice on the glacier — broke on the top of the Beardmore.
We de-averaged them and broke them down into different skill levels, and what we found were even higher shortfalls for high-skilled people and a partial surplus for low-skilled workers.
When I was three, war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991.
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