He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

In nineteen twenty-eight the Levi Strauss company registered the word "Levi's" as a trademark for their product.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

On the final day, as he waited for word, he drank glass after glass of wine.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

As part of that effort, officials are trying to spread the word about mobile slaughter units.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Fuller explained the word dymaxion as a method of doing more with less.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

The Choctaw word okeh means the same as the American word okay.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

One of the words was chosen as their swear word.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

These are students who felt under enormous pressure to perform, and I want to underscore the word 'perform,' as opposed to 'learn.'" She says the hardest lesson for society may be that young people will grow up lacking interest in learning.

VOA: special.2011.07.14

"Also it took away a lot of your fear of melodrama as well because it felt kind of seismic, if that's the right word.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

A doctor at centers as far as 150 kilometers away gives the final word to villagers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

He writes,"Ocean.There isn't another word in the English Language as strange as lovely and broad."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The reporters gathered in Oslo hung on every word as Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, uttered the name of this year's winner.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

President Obama did not use the word "democracy" when speaking about Afghanistan on Friday, although he spoke of such democratic principles as elections and human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27