The book says the saying began because a competitor's face was cleaned with a cloth towel or other material.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

Ms.Gass used cloth and paints to create an image of a water treatment center on the San Francisco Bay.

VOA: special.2011.06.15

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

With shadow puppets, the puppeteer stands behind a white cloth surface and rests the slightly see-through puppets against the cloth.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Then the woman wrapped the rain babies in pieces of cloth and laid them to sleep in a drawer.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

University of Arizona extension experts say covering plants and small trees with cloth or paper can help prevent frost damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Agricultural specialists at the University of California suggest putting paper or cloth around the trunk and central branches of young citrus trees.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

His invention contained a cloth strap that was placed across the chest and another strap across the hips.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

One room is very dark. Special lighting makes a series of paintings on cloth glow in the dark.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Pliny and the Greek geographer Strabo both noted that slaves making cloth with the material developed lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Her father, David Stewart, made a great deal of money in the trade of linen cloth and iron.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Her work "Variations on H" is made up of different colors of finely made hands connected together to form a flowing cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Four examples from different areas of Palestine show cloth that is richly embroidered with many different colors.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

He needed the cloth, he said to hold the calf's wet head as he pulled it out.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Buff is also a soft cloth used to rub a surface until it looks bright and shiny.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

A soldier at the Army base in San Francisco gave him gold colored buttons and gold cloth.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

She decides which colors to work with, then places each bead on a board covered with cloth.

VOA: special.2009.05.18