I thought the heart must burst. And now a new fear seized me -- the sound would be heard by a neighbor!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The opposite will be true. I will have a lot of money to buy clothes and my sister will get hand-me-downs from me.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

"Well,I hope you answered them right." "Oh,I did. When he asked me your height, I said five-foot-ten."

VOA: special.2009.10.11

As I watched the fierce-looking creatures, I failed to hear twenty full-grown Martians coming from behind me.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

So I asked them to let me move with Helen into a small one-room house nearby.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I did not work only a few hours each day -- no banker's hours for me.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

I watched it for perhaps a half-hour until my curiosity got the better of me.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Send these,the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

"I don't think Mommy likes me very much." Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep can be seen in August playing the famous cook and cookbook writer Julia Child.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there C if I go there C so I won't put all the fires out."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Some of the clothes I like best are hand-me-downs.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

No, why do you keep arguing with me?You just need them. - ERIC: You're gonna get frostbite!- I don't even know.

VOA: standard.other

"And I have asked the secretary of state to report to me on the status of these negotiations in mid-October."

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

VOA: standard.2010.02.23