"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

It wasn't easy for a young, single mother with only a high school education to provide for her family.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Jeff Levi is one of the authors: "In 1991,there wasn't a single state that had an adult obesity rate over 20 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Dramatically. So that he went out fishing last summer and he didn't catch a single fish."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

that single women wouldn't have babies anymore because they could prevent it until they were married.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

When Cabot Oil & Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ago, saying that it might drill a single horizontal well nearby, they weren't worried.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02