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There was good stuff, too: inside the big-box retailer World of Music (WOM), I broke-in my new emergency-only American Express card with the Gipsy Kings 'Mosaique, Paul McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt, Lisa Stansfield's Affection, and -- one of my favorite albums of all time -- Tears For Fears' The Seeds of Love.
Kristi York Wooten: How David Hasselhoff Toppled the Berlin Wall: Music Memories From November, 1989 2009
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Oh, an shud I get noo ridin crop, oar iz a gud broke-in wun beddur?
Gez. Da Kitteh in da Shrek - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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On the night of June 6, 1968, I was watching television when an announcer broke-in with news of Kennedy's assassination just after winning the California Democratic Primary for president.
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When he set out from home it was with a pair of sturdy broke-in boots on and a pack of supplies on his back.
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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This is repeated once or twice till they are submissive, and then they are sent off as broke-in horses to the West India Islands.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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The first person, however, who systematically broke-in setting dogs is supposed to have been Dudley Duke of Northumberland in 1335.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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He broke-in a poney, which had been presented to him by his grandfather, and practised on its docility till it would not only carry its little owner with ease and safety, but would play a number of tricks and gambols for his diversion and amusement. —
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Police say the teens used the machine to crash into a building on the site where they broke-in and stole cash.
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Police say the teens used the machine to crash into a building on the site where they broke-in and stole cash.
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Police say the teens used the machine to crash into a building on the site where they broke-in and stole cash.
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