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Their failure, he said, let the heater tube reach more than 1,000 de grees and hake the insulation on electrical wiring in the tank until it crumbled away.

It pushes and pushes and pushes until it crumbles away in its final ten seconds.

It crumbles away in your hands.

Atkinson is terrific at setting the stage for her story; she just hasn't given it a very good foundation, and eventually it crumbles away to nothing.

In Las Vegas, a particularly bad meal at Mix, an Alain Ducasse restaurant, leaves him with a momentary crisis of conscience: A tranche of seared foie gras is so overcooked, it crumbles away in the mouth.

Eventually it crumbles away.

One allows us to neglect the present world and let it crumble away while we focus on our own eternal glory.

It probably crumbled away, as sticks of rock will.

But I also despised the obedient docility that, as the national anthem began, saw us all stand staring proudly ahead, as though we still ruled over that mighty empire - even though it had actually crumbled away.

In Marketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek do a masterful job defining that something and placing it within a much broader exploration of how the U.S. space program acquired such mythic status in the first place before it abruptly, sadly crumbled away.

When Communism collapsed and the Soviet Union imploded, the fringes of its old empire crumbled away.