But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The meat then was grilled for five minutes on each side at a temperature of more than two hundred degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

I could not take my eyes from it. I looked at the photograph for some hours and then began working."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

If westerners voted for the tariff measure, then eastern lawmakers would support a silver purchase bill that the westerners wanted.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

For example,a child might offer something sweet to her little brother and then take it away when he reaches for it.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Then,Paley searched for the best people he could find to produce the radio shows and news programming he wanted.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

These men bought the land, held it for a while, then sold it for more than they paid.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Then Barack Obama heads to Turkey for the last stop on his first trip to Europe as president.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

He worked as a cattleman for several years, then wrote about the heroic life of the cowboy in a book called "The Virginian."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

She left high school early to care for her sick grandmother, then to care for her mother.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Then in preparing for the show, one of the children tells about the true meaning of Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The government was too strong. They waited weeks,then months, for help to move to the new reservations.

VOA: special.2010.04.01