As it turned out, the golden Reconstruction era just after the Civil War was just the beginning in a long string of false hopes that eventually became unfulfilled expectations.
In the 1960s, as the music industry was shifting from New York to Los Angeles, the Beach Boys established California's first signature sound, beginning a long string of successful popular music produced in southern California that stretched from folk rock, country rock, and singer-songwriters to punk and gangsta rap.
In the end, I dropped out of high school without a degree and began a long string of jobs at local fast food chains and retail businesses.
With the advent of Spanish explorers in the mid-16th century, these Indian groups began a long string of rebellions against the colonists that lasted several centuries.
Escaping his girlfriend and their newborn son, he lit out for New York City in 1966, and there began a long string of low-skill jobs and two decades of alcoholism and drug abuse.
So began a long string of million-selling albums that featured Vandross's distinctive baritone, precise phrasing, and unabashedly romantic songs, including "Here and Now," for which he won his first Grammy Award in 1990.
And it's the first of a long string of demos punctuating the book.
Secure the marker to the end of a long string.
In many ways, the battle for Diabaly was over before it even began, the latest in a long string of humiliating defeats for an army that the United States once hoped would be a model for fighting Islamic extremism in one of the most forbidding regions of the world.
In 1973, Mr. White began his solo career, starting a long string of hits with "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby".
