Word: far-off
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Atop an unfinished Miami hotel, Shirley Brewer breathed deep of the clear night air, smiled down at the spread-out city, caroled up to the far-off stars, tripped, toppled off the roof. But Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...
...about to speak to the drenched gathering below. It was not Bryan's voice that rang through the murky air, but the voice of his onetime friend, Josephus Daniels, who began four years ago raising funds for the statue. Day before Mr. Daniels had arrived from his far-off post as Ambassador in Mexico City, partly to visit at the White House, partly to bring the text of the New Mexican Claims agreements but mostly to speak in praise of his fellow member in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet. Ambassador Daniels reviewed the whole life of the Great Commoner...
...good man and later a canonized Saint, but a Danish earl and his sons dominated the king and wracked the land with their ambitions enterprises. The succession was obscured. There was Harold, who finally obtained it; there was Edward the Aetheling ("the exile") who prudently remained in far-off Hungary, and there was William, Duke of Normandy...
...feels as though he must collapse into himself and plunge down the abyss in which burns that unattainable, dazzling blue light. But then, in a tone of limitless melancholy, like the meaning of the wind on a rainy autumn night around the eaves of a high garret, a far-off church clock resounds. Again the throbbing abruptly falters, again the imaginary pressure is relieved, and then once more the night resumes its monotonous chant...
...will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...