Carol became one of those distracted, break-taking clerks at the city license bureau while somebody equivalently well connected in St. Paul was hired in reverse across the river.

于是，卡洛尔成了圣保罗执照管理局那些心不在焉、不时休假的职员之一，与之对应，圣保罗某位和她一样有来头的女士在河对面的明尼亚波利斯找到了工作。

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Antonio Taguba, New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh said the mistreatment of prisoners was done "to break down somebody before interrogation" at the direction of U.S. military intelligence.

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How long is it going to take for somebody on one of these defenses to break every bone in his body?

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Probably most if not all of us have encouraged somebody else to break a bad habit.

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