A male is called a steer if it had its reproductive organs removed as a calf.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

"If it had not been for them, I would not be here today," Wilson says the dedication of the Japanese American soldiers was all the more remarkable given the fact that they had left behind their families in internment camps where the U.S.government had placed them out of fear that they might help Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But recently, civil liberties groups had threatened to take the county to court if it did not remove them.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

She smiled as if she had been asked to inspect diamond jewelry with the aim of purchasing it.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

t seems as if nature had saved all her ruggedness to pile it up in this colossal form of the Guadalupe Peak ...

VOA: special.2010.04.26

If,the commander said, the governor had approved the shelling, it would be an act of war.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It appeared as if the Earth had always looked that way and always would.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

But if I had a frog, I would risk my money on it.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

It stayed there, as if he had laid it on a table!

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It was as if a cold and horrible hand had touched me.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

It seemed as if someone had made a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

She said when she first sought political office in nineteen eighty-three it was as if "the strong role of women in Cherokee life had been forgotten by some of our own people."

VOA: special.2010.04.09