Bob Sheppard was nicknamed "The Voice of God."

VOA: special.2010.07.26

People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.

华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字

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It was nicknamed Swine Flu, although a few months later public health experts began calling it by its proper name: H1N1.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

For 30 years, Warren Guidroz has been fishing for crab out of this town, nicknamed the end of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

An Israeli court sentenced him to death in the 1980s on charges of being a brutal camp guard nicknamed Ivan the Terrible.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

as the creature was nicknamed, was especially surprising to scientists because of how she walked.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

When an old friend moved to Huntington Beach,California - a Pacific coast city nicknamed Surf City,USA - he realized it was time to live his dream.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Crowds started forming at Houston's Museum of Natural Science in early July, as people young and old came to see the plant museum staffers had nicknamed "Lois."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The highlights were several new missiles, including a ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead and another one that has been nicknamed the "aircraft carrier killer."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

He is also expected to face a strong challenge from a candidate representing Macedonia's ethnic-Albanian minority,Imer Selmani, who has been nicknamed the Macedonian Obama after the United States president.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22