An estimated one billion people in forty countries watched this program when it was broadcast on television in nineteen seventy-three.

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It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

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And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and one half seconds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

It says tornadoes kill eighty people and injure one thousand five hundred others nationwide in an average year.

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To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

It can also cause flooding. Wind speeds in a category two hurricane can reach close to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

One line is the equator. It is an imaginary line around the widest part of the Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Others hate that name. Whatever you call it, one artist often used as an example is the singer,songwriter and harp player Joanna Newsom.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

If he misses the shot and one his teammates is able to regain control of the ball, it is called an "offensive rebound."

VOA: special.2011.03.25

One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

And it will buy an additional one hundred billion dollars of stock in each company.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Others say it is the feeling one gets from having met an exercise goal.

VOA: special.2010.06.08