They wanted to start a fight. They would wait for someone to be brave enough to try to hit it off.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Students who violate the terms of their visa - for example, by working off-campus without permission - could be sent home.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

We even took the tops off the tables to see if he had hidden the letter in the table legs.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Often,he would pass islands with strong enemy forces, cut off their supplies and leave them with no chance to fight.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

She was famous for her beauty. Madame Pierre Gautreau is wearing a low-cut black dress that shows off her pale skin.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The air show also follows the crash last week of an Air France jet in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

About half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy,the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

VOA: special.2011.05.05

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Justice of the Peace Benaja Widdup returned to his doorway, took off his shoes and happily smoked his pipe.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And as they set off across the wild country of west Texas, their mother and father could hardly hear a thing.

VOA: special.2009.11.28