Word: broking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When [McNamara] left, he was already a very sick, disheartened, and dispirited person, so much so that at his last news conference...he broke down in tears, in front of the President and the cameras," said Marvin L. Kalb, a Kennedy School professor who, as a former journalist, knew McNamara personally. "It was a sad thing to observe, for somebody who was so confident that he knew how to run the war, to leave in tears and in full awareness that he had failed...
...broke me down," said Cynthia Moutin, 43, from Fremont, Calif. "When Paris spoke, when she called him 'Daddy' - that was the last straw...
Mariah Carey's voice cracked in emotion during "I'll Be There." Brooke Shields broke down recalling Michael Jackson as the Little Prince. Even Usher took off his sunglasses, revealing how pained he was by the sight of Michael Jackson's brilliant gold casket on the floor of the Staples Center...
...Reading your stories, I was reminded of the problems Francis Ford Coppola faced with Apocalypse Now. You say at one point in the book that you were flat broke and that you traded two bottles of shampoo for four kilos of rice. Is that the low point...
...movement's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been kept under house arrest for 13 of the past 18 years. The regime has now put her on what U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "show trial" for violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man broke into her home, claiming he had visions she would be assassinated. She faces a five-year prison sentence if convicted. Even Burma's normally circumspect neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have criticized the regime over the trial and Suu Kyi's never-ending imprisonment. (See pictures...