Word: farawayness
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AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS from faraway places came to celebrate the last bar mitzvah of the generation. Balloons danced in the early summer air. That morning Josh Maisel, then 13, entered Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Me., as a child, and he emerged, in the eyes of his faith, a man. Serious duties replaced the weightlessness of his younger years. As a child, Josh had listened to Scripture and learned; as an adult, Josh is allowed to read from the Torah so that he can pass on his family's faith to a new generation...
...fork loader brings the crusher a gored and rusty Rambler. The crusher eats the Rambler. The Rambler doesn't fight back. It just shivers as it enters the jaws. The windshield pops. The crusher howls lustily. The crusher man working the levers slow and easy has a faraway look...
Dukakis fashioned side-by-side landslides in Ohio and Indiana, routing Jackson by margins of greater than two-to-one. He also padded his substantial lead in national convention delegates and ratified his status as faraway favorite to win the Democratic nomination and meet Bush in the fall campaign...
Some managers say that they find the long-term work difficult. But their ability to organize trips to faraway places without a hitch and to keep the Harvard house in order gives them a great deal of satisfaction...
...astronomy capital of the world," may bristle with telescopes, but they are mighty rare in the remainder of the world. There are about 500 American astronomers who publish at least one scholarly paper a year; there are only eight telescopes large enough to see the extremely faint and faraway objects of interest to many of them...