Stock prices took a roller-coaster ride this week -- down one day,up the next.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Ships often sank. No one could survive the freezing waters in this dangerous area if the ship went down.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

It has several meanings. One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Here they can see Waimoku Falls where water drops one hundred twenty meters down the face of a mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The one with the large spear got down from the back of his animal and began walking toward me.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

It is often a winning card. In one kind of poker game, the first card to each player is given face down.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

About one in every one hundred people with Down syndrome will develop leukemia, a cancer of the blood.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

He ordered more than one thousand soldiers to go to Utah to put down the rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

She held back her skirts and turned her feet one way and her head another way as she looked down at the shiny, pointed boots.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

It's the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf that blew down a house made of straw and one made of sticks.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years.

VOA: special.2010.06.01