Jill Wiseman of Austin,Texas, left her job at a high-tech company four years ago to do beading full time.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

He worked on his high school newspaper and later left the University of Texas at Austin to become a journalist.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

At the time that Miss Jordan left Congress, there were widespread reports that failing health was the cause for her decision.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston,Illinois for two years but left to go to New York City.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

It can be left at room temperature for up to 12 hours if you like a stronger taste.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Sylvie would have had a much better time if the young man had left his gun at home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Good-day to you, gentlemen." Tolman and Sharp shook their heads mournfully at each other when Gillian left.

VOA: special.2011.08.13

Paul Perachi left the court last year at seventy, the age when judges in Massachusetts must retire.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

At first,people with the condition forget simple things, like where they left the keys to their car.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

But nothing was left at the spot where the Captain's house had stood the night before.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

At the age of fifteen, he left school and went to work in the music business.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

In nineteen eighty, Fossey left Karisoke and accepted a position at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York.

VOA: special.2011.01.23