There's a repeated gag in which one of the sisters enjoys taking a hard fall and breaking one rib after another, and a climactic bit, involving dynamite, that's nearly apocalyptic.
I watched as Matt broke one heart after another, always warning them – "I'll never settle down, I'm a really bad lot" – but they were all willing to give it a try.
From Asia to Central America, a new generation of Nellie Blys and Ida Tarbells, Seymour Hershes and Rachel Carsons, is breaking one big story after another with equal parts old-fashioned shoe leather and 21st-century knowhow.
That news, sad in a real and lasting way, came on the same day that another story broke — one that is sad in a passing and pathetic kind of way.
Another passenger broke one ankle, a third broke a wrist and a fourth was cut in the head, apparently from falling debris, the authorities said.
She got into boxing through a compulsory community-service program after she broke one girl's jaw and another's nose in a street fight.
PURDUE 28, PENN STATE 14 Anthony Chambers returned a punt 76 yards for a score, set up two other touchdowns with long returns, broke one team record and tied another as No. 18 Purdue beat visiting Penn State.
The testimony starkly illustrates the ease with which weapons can be procured from the likes of Bout and other arms traffickers, who exploit legal loopholes or flout international law, breaking one UN arms embargo after another.
