She used the time in a hospital to write letters in support of an American Red Cross organization.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Most people at that time thought it was not important for young women to learn anything more than to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Mary Dawson, in her Internet Writing Journal, writes that this season influenced songwriters to write some of the greatest songs of all time.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

This led him to write and record songs for his own album, "A Long Time Coming."

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He had lost the ability to write and was sick most of the time.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The job permitted Joplin time to write and play his own work.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02