He became a "free agent." For months,sports fans had tried to predict where the star would choose to play.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Girls screamed as they tried to get a look at John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Virginians wanted Brown punished quickly to show what would happen to anyone who tried to lead a Negro rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

He also tried hypnosis. He wanted to see if putting patients into a sleep-like condition would help ease troubled minds.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He objected. He said if he had broken a law, he should be tried by a civilian court.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The man who shot James Garfield -- Charles Guiteau -- was tried by a court in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

There was some question whether Brown should be tried in a federal court or a state court.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Instead,he tried to describe a situation so well that the reader would understand the emotion in it.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

His company failed. In the eighteen nineties, an American company tried to build a canal across Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12