Many years later, Earl Cooley told a newspaper that he still believed he had made the best decision he could.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

He had so totally given himself to scientific studies that he could not be weakened by a second love.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He said he had to go into action as quickly as possible -- as fast as he could move.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

For if McClellan discovered how few men were left behind, he could smash through easily and capture the city.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

She died at the age of four. Bucky Fuller blamed himself, although he had done everything he could to save her.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

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

VOA: special.2009.06.06

His family was poor. His early education came not from school teachers, but from whatever books he could find.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

He would go to bed after dinner. But he could hear the orchestra playing until three in the morning.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Second,he could not be guilty of plotting a slave rebellion, because he had never incited slaves against their owners.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He could support the Compromise of Eighteen Fifty and declare it to be the final settlement of the problem.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

They stopped laughing when they found he could do the hard work of a cowboy as well as any of them.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Mister Ramirez might not have been able to express himself in English, but he could do so with his art.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But he continued to visit the mountaintop where the men were buried, until he could no longer make the climb.

VOA: special.2009.11.24