broke out
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I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
The fact of it is that all of us agreed to save 6d. in the Income Tax by breaking up the Army in peace-time and not having it prepared when war broke out...I will never be a party to it again.
It is not too much to say that when the Great War broke out our Generals had the most important lessons of their art to learn. Before they began they had much to unlearn. Their brains were cluttered with useless lumber, packed in every niche and corner.