She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

For the first time in eighteen years, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

SpongeBob won the hearts of children all over America during the first year of the cartoon series on the Nicklelodeon cable television network.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Two years later she won the Western Open for the first of her three major titles.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

He easily won the presidency in eighteen sixty-eight in the first election held after the war.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Paul Simon,who won the first Gershwin Prize in two thousand seven, performed "If It's Magic."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

So it was not clear at first who had won the presidential election.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

He won the Entertainer of the Year award for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

D.C.United won the first two M.L.S.championships.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Speaking for the first time since the outbreak of the controversy, Semenya spoke animatedly of the final she won.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Six years ago, South Africa won its bid to become the first African nation to host a football World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

He won one of the first disc golf championships in the country nearly 40 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

In 2008,he won his first two awards with his band,The Workers, for Best Blues Album of the Year and Best Blues Band of the Year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Mr.Clegg opened talks first with the Conservatives because they won the most votes.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"I believe that most Hong Kong people will feel that we have won the first battle, able to control the spread of infection from the first index patient,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Croatia's electoral commission says Social Democrat candidate Ivo Josipovic won the most votes in the first round of Croatia's presidential poll with more than 32 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

They won. That's a first.But the U.S. didn't end the subsidies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

This year, the team's experience shows, with Johnny Spillane earning his first World Cup win in early January while Lodwick finished on the podium in two events and Demong won a World Cup event in October.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Have I found you Flightless bird Grounded Bleeding or lost you American mouth (SINGING) How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I went wrong Won't take my eyes off the ball again You reel me out then you cut the string How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I went wrong Won't take my eyes off the ball again First you reel me outand then you cut the string You used to be all right What happened?

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