"It was that contrast, coming home to place where there are flowers in the backyard, from a place where the streets are paved with crack bottles, the caliber of human tragedy there makes you want to cry.
ISPARTA, Turkey — After retaking Taksim Square in Istanbul after hours of ugly street battles with police officers firing tear gas this month, many of the haggard protesters cracked bottles of Efes beer and raised them in a mock toast to their prime minister, who had recently pushed through a law to curb drinking.
It takes such a long time to construct huge ocean-going container ships, bulk carriers and oil tankers that the vast shipyards of South Korea, China and Japan will still be cracking bottles of bubbly over newly launched ships for a couple of years yet.
In any case, wine bottles are not built to withstand extreme pressure differences, so an intensely low internal air pressure could crack the bottle.
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But I wouldn't crack a bottle open at breakfast; that might be taking it too far.
Since then, Ms. Yee remembers only one other occasion when the six got together: To crack a bottle of Champagne at a millennium charity event.
His daughter, Susan Molinari, the former congresswoman, will serve as the boat's "sponsor" and will get to crack a bottle of Champagne across the bow.
You don't mind if I crack a bottle and put my head under this camo blanket for a second, do you?
Nevertheless, the single "Crack a Bottle" became Eminem's second song to top the Billboard singles chart (after "Lose Yourself"), and Eminem won Grammy Awards for both the song and the album.
