He splurged on the one thing that he normally would not buy.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

It was the hand that Beatrice had grabbed in hers when he reached for one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Smiley got him so the frog was catching flies, and he would catch one of those insects every time.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

As he tells it,one day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

For a time he was one of only three doctors,and the only surgeon, at a huge hospital in Kinshasa.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

He was one of only twenty-three senators who voted in two thousand two against supporting the invasion of Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

By the time John Henry was a young man, he was one of the best steel-drivers in the country.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He was one of the Army's mental health professionals working with soldiers to deal with the effects of war.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

In fact,he is one of only a few entertainers ever to have won an Oscar, an Emmy,a Grammy and a Tony award.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

He was one of the nation's more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

He stayed for almost one year. He was able to get a few paying jobs playing the saxophone.

VOA: special.2009.05.03