After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.
VOA: special.2010.02.17
The chief engineer,Joseph Strauss, wrote a poem called "The Mighty Task is Done" after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed.
VOA: special.2010.07.23
Jackson bought a huge property in California which he called "Neverland" after the children's story of Peter Pan.
VOA: special.2009.07.05
The steelworkers union called the strike after failing to reach a wage agreement with company officials.
VOA: special.2010.06.10
The Justice Department announced the arrests on June twenty-eighth, four days after the so-called hamburger summit.
VOA: special.2010.07.10
In Faulkner's story called "The Bear" a group of men are talking after the day's hunt.
VOA: special.2010.01.03
Heavy government debt only adds to unease about the future after the so-called Great Recession.
VOA: special.2009.05.29
Instead,Congress called it Utah, after the Ute tribe of Native American Indians that lived there.
VOA: special.2009.06.04
After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties, a writer in a publication called Beadles Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers.
VOA: special.2010.03.07
After the revolution, Alisa returned to Saint Petersburg, now called Petrograd, to attend college.
VOA: special.2010.06.06
After four to ten days, they change again, into creatures called pupas.
VOA: special.2009.05.26
Emergency contraceptives, like the so-called morning-after pill, can prevent pregnancy if they are taken within 120 hours of unprotected intercourse.
VOA: standard.2010.03.22
After graduating from university in a computer gaming program, he founded an educational video game company called Let Me Think Games.
VOA: standard.2010.04.20
After a recent trip to Tegucigalpa, Miami Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called on U.S.President Barack Obama to review his policy toward the crisis.
VOA: standard.2009.10.23
Mr.Obama spoke after separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, which he called "frank and productive."
VOA: standard.2009.09.22
He said,however, that two polling officers were arrested before the polls opened Friday after they were found opening boxes containing what he called sensitive materials.
VOA: standard.2009.11.28
It's not a daily thing. They have something called passeggiata, so after every dinner they get up as a family and they go for a walk."
VOA: standard.2010.02.23
President Obama called for a return to peace talks on Thursday, two days after the Israeli government announced a partial settlement freeze in the West Bank.
VOA: standard.2009.08.21
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