There are days when things seem normal, and then something as trivial as a kitchen appliance breaking sends us sputtering.
The road soon collapsed and then a gas line broke, sending flames two stories high.
Also that week, a force main at a Greenwich treatment plant broke, sending yet more contaminants into the Sound.
After several hours trapped in the blazing heat, police let a few women and children through their line and it broke, sending thousands of people stampeding through.
This week, the long predicted storm broke, sending Italian interest costs above 7 percent and triggering stock market sell-offs around the world, Wall Street included.
As I lowered one foot to the next step, the wooden crosspiece broke, sending my body swinging wildly to the left.
In 1972, in Buffalo Creek, Ky., a poorly built dam at a slurry pond broke, sending a wall of water over the town below, killing 125 people.
Just after noon on Monday, a corner of the sludge reservoir broke, sending the goo into the surrounding countryside, turning four prosperous, picturesque villages into red-tinged towns out of science-fiction horror films.
In extremis, Coyle went for broke, sending on Kevin Davies, Chris Eagles and Ivan Klasnic, but Fulham were always more dangerous on the break and Duff, who rounded poor Alonso at will, brought a couple of good, low saves from Bogdan.
