51.   So Putin sought to paint a brighter picture Saturday, reassuring voters on a state-owned radio station that Russia had broken the back of the rebel resistance.

52.   Smith fell to the grass, then got up and tried to walk away, not realizing he had broken his back.

53.   Strug once competed with a torn stomach muscle and nearly broke her back in a fall from the uneven bars another time.

54.   That he is alive after breaking his back, puncturing both lungs, and having his vital signs yo-yo from the shock of it all is one blessing.

55.   That always breaks your back.

56.   The act became singular after the bicycle toppled, breaking his back and severely injuring the three women.

57.   That legal victory was widely credited with breaking the back of blacklisting in broadcasting.

58.   The Angels are now on a road trip that could break the back of their run for the postseason.

59.   The Breves family works an impossibly inhospitable plot of scrubland, breaking their backs refining sugar on an old-fashioned, oxen-powered press.

60.   The culmination of all those years of breaking my back to be the best.