No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

At one point,he says, he was in the back of a truck travelling to the capital,Phnom Penh.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

One day,Mama and Caroline came back to the island on a boat after Carolines singing lesson.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People's Republic of China at that time, ninety-thousand in one year from Fukien Province alone.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

One wanted to call to these few soldiers to come back."

VOA: special.2010.07.15

About one month later, Germont came back to see us.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

The Santa Fe Trail dates back to eighteen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

And,he and the woman are back to square one.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

My back's crookedlike a question mark. Next to Mama,no one ever talked to me or asked me questions.

VOA: standard.other

Maine Senator Susan Collins was one of only three Republicans to back Mr.Obama's economic- stimulus package last month.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Opposition groups report at least one busload of people trying to reach Qom was turned back, while there were other reports of arrests.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Unemployment is 9.5 percent in the United States, and Mr.Obama says hiring is usually one of the last areas of a struggling economy to bounce back.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14