Word: unbroken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which stretches the team's unbroken string of victories to eight--was little more than a warm up for the team's match today against Navy. In fact, the only noteworthy event of the Dartmouth match was Anil Nayar's first game loss of the season. But Nayar never lost his poise and ran his opponent to a 3-1 defeat...
...year, the nation's real output of goods and services declined. Statistically, the setback was minuscule (0.06%) and much too brief to qualify as a meaningful interruption in the long expansion. Having picked up momentum again, the economy passed a notable milestone in November: the 81st month of unbroken prosperity, bettering the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945. Over the past six years, the average American family's real income has swelled 22% (to $7,404), and the whole economy has grown by $281 billion-which is more than the combined 1966 output of West Germany...
...legendary loyalty to his old vaudeville cronies, his brothers,- distant kin, in-laws of distant kin, acquaintances, agents and NBC ("30 unbroken years, and I've enjoyed every dollar of the relationship"). His wardrobe girl is an invalid who works from a wheelchair. He has seen to it that his old sidekick, Jerry Colonna, semipar-alyzed by a stroke, gets plenty of work...
During the two unbroken hours of action that followed, Actor Yan Brian recited a passage from Thus Spake Zarathustra while climbing a ladder, male dancers struggled for balls of rolled-up newspapers, a black-clad hag buzzed around on a scooter and recited folk poems. Men and women frugged wildly to rock-'n'-roll music, imitated coitus to electronic pings and a soft-voiced reading of the Song of Songs, staged a mock war between classical and modern ballet, and ended looking up expectantly while the noise of jet engines screamed overhead. Then, during ten minutes of bravos...
...school system in which the children of ghetto classes are burdened year upon year with unbroken lines of substitute teachers--teachers unfit, unprepared, inexperienced, teachers who are not teachers, teachers who are fill-ins, who are temporary, who work at night or after school in other jobs, who do not know children, who do not know education, who are not concerned, who are not involved, who do not and cannot care about the lives expiring before them...