Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

"Your forces," he wrote, "fired this morning on a civilian ship flying the flag of my government.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Two hours after Apollo Thirteen went around the moon, the astronauts fired the rocket for five minutes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

You do not always know if a clay object will survive being fired at high temperatures.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

He fired. Then the man jumped from the box to the stage three meters below.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

He said it would even protect them from bullets fired by the white men's guns.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

We use here a low temperature fired clay, which is very easy to work with.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Schirra fired a rocket exactly long enough to put his spacecraft in the same orbit.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

If someone has been fired from a job they might say, "My boss eighty-sixed me."

VOA: special.2010.01.08

One night,it fired its torpedoes at a much larger Union ship and sank it.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

They fired cannons as the city of Washington was waking to a new day.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Brown's son,Watson, and another man fired at a railroad guard who refused to halt.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

When he fired the gun, he shouted that he supported Roscoe Conkling's political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

They remembered that South Carolina had fired the first shots of the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

It is used to make clothing that stops bullets fired from a gun.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

More than four-thousand shells had been fired during the thirty-three hours of fighting.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In the study, researchers fired bursts of electricity at the animals' spinal cords.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

But a bullet fired very close to the policeman struck his chest.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

A little past one o'clock in the afternoon, a Confederate gun fired,once.

VOA: special.2009.11.05