A seizure is a sudden attack that may affect a person's mind or body for a short period.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

If anything can produce fireworks, it is a sweetheart's kiss or the touch of a lover's hand.

VOA: special.2011.07.03

So could letting another country use a state's territory for aggressive acts against a third state.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

The boy picked up a small piece of steel and a workman's tool,a hammer.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

A John Hancock is a person's signed name a signature.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

There was such a large crowd that a ship's cable, a heavy rope, was stretched across the portico to separate the crowd from Jackson as he took the oath and delivered his inaugural address.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

A South Korean envoy is also traveling to a gathering in Poland for the South's first formal participation in a U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

Diatta says silence to preserve the family's honor often is a family's first reaction when a girl is raped.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

But a state education worker in the Sdhiou region, Yadicone San Diatta, says that too often a family's honor is put ahead of the child's needs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

When asked what he loves most on this special day Mathew is quick to answer. "Maybe a Valentine's gift, a nice hug,kiss,a special kiss that's very profound.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

A source of anger for many lawmakers at the hearing was a U.S.government contract for a so-called "virtual fence" monitoring system along the nearly 3200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"It's not a competition. It's not a sports event. There's no pistol going off and we all run and the guy who does it under 10 seconds comes in first.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18