crumbled

And then, the entire edifice crumbled as Baltimore became the focus and fall guy for one of the more infamous investigations of scientific misconduct in the last half of the 20th century.

In the few minutes it had taken to drop their son off, a landslide-plagued portion of the highway — ominously named Last Chance Grade — had crumbled.

But with the jury's verdicts, his last shred of control over the lives of his victims has crumbled.

But that determined cordiality crumbled when masked immigration agents and military personnel descended on the city.

Leno wants his peers to return to a middle ground that crumbled to dust years ago.