The Great Recession gave some mothers no choice but to work, as job cuts hit hard at men.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The Captain stayed at our house when the big storm hit in nineteen forty-two.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

You can actually calculate the angle at which that blood hit your surface."

VOA: special.2010.05.05

At night, Babe would make noises and hit the ground with his feet.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

He hit several cones and at least one doll.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

He could not hit the baseball at all.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

With BP's value almost cut in half, it is not just the people at the top who will be hit.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

The secretary stayed at one of two Mumbai hotels hit by the terrorists and attended a commemorative event there for the victims.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

In one attack on Tuesday, two suicide bombers hit separate areas at an Islamic university in the capital,Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowded city's planners were stunned at the amount of rain that poured down in a short time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Meanwhile,police say at least eleven members of the Central Reserve Police Force died when their vehicle hit a landmine in an area of Chhattisgarh, where Maoists are active.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

His hit song "Superstition" came in at Number 6.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Britain's Royal Society has released a report looking at how science and technology can be used to fight a food shortage it says is expected to hit the globe by 2050.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Lynn was referring to decades of controversy over whether it was possible to develop a missile that could hit and destroy an incoming missile in flight, and to do so at a reasonable and sustainable cost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

To date,"On Stage" has sold more than The re-mastered "Elvis Presley On Stage" contains additional recordings from both sets of concerts at the International, as well as nine bonus tracks and a rehearsal take of his hit single, "The Wonder Of You."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24