Word: unbrokenness
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...stubborn consistency that has made them the small talk of Tennessee, the Friendsville Academy Foxes have wrapped up another remarkable season of high school basketball. Last week the Foxes lost to Vonore, 57 to 52, thus finishing with a won-lost record of 0-26. Their losing streak-unbroken since 1967 -now stands...
...imprisoning of his own, for his survival caught the prison system in the snare of a Hobson's choice. Released from the joint, Jackson would have presented a substantial challenge to the maintainence of "law and order" on the outside. But retained in custody with his will and spirit unbroken, Jackson presented the same threat to the standing order of the prison system. By example and communication, Jackson could continue to expose the irrationality of the system--as it functions inside and outside the joint, and inside and outside America--to his fellow prisoners. Moreover, he could continue to prove...
...Many of the younger cons read him before they came to the joint and informed older inmates about him. As a result, George Jackson became well known in the joints outside California as he had become inside the state as one of the most remarkable of the rational and unbroken...
...meeting between Emperor and President is an unprecedented incident for the slight, shy Hirohito, the 124th ruler in an unbroken line that stretches back 2,600 years. He was considered "sacred and inviolable" in prewar Japan; under the constitution imposed on Japan after the war, he became no more than a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." As a figure shorn of real power, the Emperor carefully avoids political discussions. The list of acceptable topics for discussion at Elmendorf, therefore, consists of little more than anecdotes about Nixon's six earlier visits to Japan...
...Though less of a social watering spot, the summer sales at Keeneland boast no less inflated prices. It was there in 1968 that a Norfolk, Va., grocery-chain owner outbid the late Charles Engelhard to set a still unbroken record: $405,000 for a filly, Reine Enchanteur...