Today the idea lives on in a new generation of string trimmers and edgers that people often call weed whackers.

VOA: special.2011.07.19

During this time, Dean launched his singing career with Columbia Records and produced a string of minor hits in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Despite a string of attacks early Sunday,mainly in Baghdad, insurgents were not able to carry out the massive strikes they had threatened.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

They set off a string of bombs that damaged equipment in the machine room and started a fire that authorities rushed to put out.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

He led a breakaway faction of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, which has carried out a string of bombings in Indonesia in recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17