Word: unbrokenness
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...Millses represent an unbroken working-class line fated to perform the world's crummiest jobs. "I would take my place behind the horses . . . I'm into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables...
...reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought then, "except people." For his story, he strung those images together, a sportswriter taking the reader to places and situations in the sports world where no purchased ticket would ever permit him entry...
...first glance, Baghdad could not seem safer. There are color photographs of President Saddam Hussein everywhere in the capital, his beaming countenance gazing reassuringly down on his countrymen. The state-controlled television news, now broadcast in color, projects the same kind of official optimism. True, there has been an unbroken series of military victories on the fighting front to lend credence to Saddam's leadership abilities. No one talks about what might happen if there were a reversal on the battlefield...
Angell's grace carries over into in-depth pieces on specific aspects of the national tradition--a thorough examination of the art of hitting, a lengthy profile on retired great Bob Gibson. Sometimes these ramble excessively, damaged by extensive use of the first person and long, unbroken quotes. Usually, however, they provide lively, informative insights on one of infinite facets of the sport...
Harvard's worst financial nightmare has finally shown signs of ending during the past year. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) has by no means transformed into a dream come true, but the controversial diesel facility may become fully operational by late summer because of an unbroken string of regulatory and court victories over environmental and citizen activist since November...