Also prune branches growing toward the ground, high branches growing straight up and shoots growing from the base of the tree.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In May of nineteen forty-three, Louie Zamperini and his crew left their base in Hawaii to begin a rescue operation.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Fort Hood is a huge base that has lost more than five hundred soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

On June fourth, Mallory and team member Andrew Irvine left their base camp for the team's final attempt to reach the summit.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

When that war ended, he was sent to an army base far from his wife and children.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The Bush administration proposed a radar base in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

And the D.P.J. has questioned an agreement about an American Marine base on the island of Okinawa.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

A soldier at the Army base in San Francisco gave him gold colored buttons and gold cloth.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The base played a part in the nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

So most opera composers base their works on very tragic stories of love and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.12

The base was closed and all missile equipment was removed in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

And the abolitionists might use Texas as a base for propaganda against the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.05