11.  But income taxes and World War I consigned some Berkshire mansions to second lives as schools or resorts, while dooming others to the wrecking ball.

12.  But she was only part of the wrecking ball that demolished the Comets.

13.  But still it hurts to see and hear the wrecking ball slamming into the sides of the Boston Garden.

14.  Everything in Asia, in fact, seems ripe for the wrecking ball.

15.  Exactly the kind of modern b.s. that attracted me to the wrecking ball in the first place.

16.  Finally, if necessary wrecking balls will smash remaining floors.

17.  Greenwich is not the only affluent town where the wrecking ball has been swinging.

18.  GSA Regional Administrator John Pouland said two other options, leaving the building standing and taking it down with a wrecking ball, were discussed but discarded.

19.  He nestles the wrecking ball softly against the beam, like a golfer addressing the ball.

20.  Her moving van, packed with more than five decades of memories, has barely left the curb when the wrecking ball arrives.