This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Most voters appeared to heed the instructions of Interior Minister Francois Ndoungou to return home on Sunday and wait for the government to announce the winner.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

"You can't just preach lofty goals and wait for somebody else to act.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Sometimes, we'd just sitout and wait for the stars.

VOA: standard.other

Racist laws required African Americans to drink from separate public drinking fountains, climb back stairs to sit in the balconies of theaters, and wait in much smaller rooms at bus and train stations.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Gather and tie the leaves over the head, and do not wait for the buds to separate before harvesting.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He took me to Miss Adair's house and agreed to wait there until we had finished our business.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

And so the man took the box, and put up his forty dollars and sat down to wait.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He would wait in orbit around the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and explored the surface.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

The agency says treatment should begin immediately and not wait for the results of laboratory tests.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

He would wait for more men. But as he waited, more and more Union soldiers arrived.

VOA: special.2009.11.05