Word: unbrokenness
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...shogun, or warlord, leyasu Tokugawa unified Japan at the beginning of the 17th century, welding its scattered feudal clans into a military ruling class with himself at the top; from then until the capsule of Japanese self-containment was ruptured by Admiral Perry, the country was run by an unbroken line of Tokugawa's descendants...
Soon she makes Oliver a live-in member of the household. When the puritanical Eve catches wise, she gives notice. But Molly wins Eve back by pleading that she desperately needs her. The need to be needed is an unbroken strand that runs through the play...
...tanned young man offered both of us another pina colada. Beneath us the sun played on the Caribbean and then, in front and to the left, the atoll appeared, light green in the distance and rimmed by a pink ribbon of unbroken beach. The light green below resolved into hundreds of gangling palm trees. I smiled at my friend and leaned back for the landing. This, I thought, is air hitchhiking...
...Dawkins writes, there is this civilization 200 light years away. They want to spread their culture to distant worlds. So they assemble everything they want to say into one huge unbroken message, and then broadcast it out into space. The message is picked up by this huge computer on Earth which proceeds to take over the world and restructure society to accord with the outer-space radio message...
WHILE THE FRESHMEN class has not yet nominated students to serve on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and the seven-year student boycott of the CRR is still technically unbroken, it became clear last week that the boycott is perilously close...