Vermont, however, still won the right for its researchers to ask for money under the National Sea Grant Program.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Edward Kennedy never won the presidency, but became a long- serving and important member of the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn also experienced a sweet victory when she won the gold medal in the womens downhill ski race.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The Democrats won the election, because they were able to bridge the differences between their northern and southern members.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Republicans urged Union men to "vote as you shot" for Ulysses Grant the man who won the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

In the last show before the break, the group competed against two other high school glee clubs, and won the competition.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Some Whig leaders remembered how William Henry Harrison had won the presidency for the party by campaigning as a military hero.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in nineteen seventy and the Presidential Medal of Freedom seven years later.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

When Theodore Roosevelt won the election of nineteen-oh-four, he announced he would not be a candidate in nineteen-oh-eight.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

They won the gold medal. Benjamin Spock worked at a camp for disabled children for three summers during his years at Yale.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

In nineteen ninety-nine, Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

D.C.United won the M.L.S.Cup, the league championship, on the strength of a Most Valuable Player performance by Olsen.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The three athletes won the Gold Medal at the two thousand eight Olympics and are good friends.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The president and his Democratic allies in Congress finally won the battle after more than a year.

VOA: special.2010.03.27