He and his doctors believed he had gotten it when he received infected blood after his second heart operation.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Annette Flanagin and Joe Wislar said they were pleased about the decrease but had hoped it would be larger.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He reportedly said at the time that Motown had lost the spirit it had during its time in Detroit.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

It had been almost ten years since the last major soccer league in the United States had closed down.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He had been feeding it milk from a donkey, and he believed he could raise the baby just fine.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

George Gershwin agreed to compose something for the concert before he realized how little time he had to do it.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The epidemic might have been even worse had it not been for the father of the actress Glenn Close.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The Judge had writen it at the same day that John asked him for the money for his first hunting trip.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Since the anti-trust law had been passed in eighteen ninety, few companies had been found guilty of violating it.

VOA: special.2010.08.05