I said good-bye and left. "The man who almost had an accident was one of my servants.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

At last I had a strong partner in the fight against Mulberry Bend -- my camera."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

I had been too smart for that. A tub had caught all -- ha! ha!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"Oh,I think a recent Thanksgiving when my son and I had a turkey cook-off.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I had trouble breathing -- and yet the officers heard it not.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

As recently as January, the I.M.F.had predicted growth of one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

"The eyes light up and click. It happens -- 'I didn't know you had this.'" Jenny Johnson is the executive director of marketing for the Online Computer Library Center.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

I smiled -- for what had I to fear?

VOA: special.2009.05.16

But it was not enough. By November, the government had extended a total of about 150 billion dollars in aid to A.I.G - the most to any single company during the crisis.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

"Actually my first name is Charles. When I was in the military they would always assume that somebody had mis-keyed the M versus the F and would house me with a male roommate or such."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

I've had to fight our kind before. - They're not easy to kill.- EMMETT: But not impossible.

VOA: standard.other

It's not like all the orthopedic injuries I've had where you go get an MRI or an X-ray and you get it fixed.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26