41.   Since the story broke, the idea has gained momentum.

42.   Since the Pratt story broke, it has been open season, with an ethically challenged press now fanning the flames.

43.   Some suggested when the story broke that if it proved even partly correct, they could not stay in government with him.

44.   Since the story broke in January, a media village of sorts has arisen outside the courthouse where the grand jury meets.

45.   That was, of course, the day before the Dick Morris prostitute story broke.

46.   The campaign finance story is not breaking, like some Washington news.

47.   The copy boy would summon them when a big story was breaking.

48.   The initial media frenzy the week the Monica Lewinsky story broke offered telltale signs of what was to come.

49.   The story broke in The Chronicle before the teams planned to announce it.

50.   The story broke not in The Los Angeles Times, which might have been expected to pounce on a juicy hometown scandal, but in The Wall Street Journal.