Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

One year after the bombs were dropped on Japan, he received the Presidential Medal of Merit for his work.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The thirty-four room house opened to the public in February of two thousand eight after fifteen million dollars in work.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The program is meant to help prisoners develop work skills for the time after they serve their sentences.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The recording industry honored his lifetime work with a Grammy Award after he died in two thousand two.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Soon after he had finished his work he sank into a chair by the side of the table upon which the body lay.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

She says foreign students who work for their school or at an internship probably have the best chance for a job after graduation.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He started writing in eighteen seventy-six, but put the story away after about two years of work.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

The four band members continued to work together after leaving Dizzy's group in the late nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

The work was named after the island of Melos where the statue was discovered in eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

After a long day at work, Eddie returns home to his wife and the warm love of the niece he and his wife have raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

But after the war, women were expected to stay at home and have babies while their husbands went back to work in factories and laboratories.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

After that, the United States government employed Blackwater to work in Afghanistan and Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The old man came home after a long day of work at the mill.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Finally,after six years of back-breaking labor, the two work teams met in northern Utah.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Washington Roebling continued the work from his home after he was disabled.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Soon after that, he returned to Memphis to work with the NAACP.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The park opened in 2004, after almost 9 years of costly work.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

After his work in Africa,William Close returned to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

After the kill, a sailor's work was far from over.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

The intensity of the health care debate will pick up next week when Congress returns to work after its summer break.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12