He read it quickly. Then he put it in his pocket and ran out of the room without saying a word.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

In eighteen seventy-two, a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

In seventeen ninety-seven, the Independent Chronicle newspaper used the word to describe a politician the paper supported.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

In nineteen twenty-eight the Levi Strauss company registered the word "Levi's" as a trademark for their product.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

But to his parents generation the word is a reminder of the counter-revolutionary movement in Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

We have sought in word and deed for a new era of engagement with the world."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He was asked to think of a word that could be used in an emergency.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

A newspaper in Boston,Massachusetts said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

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

In traditional Pig Latin, the first consonant sound of a word is moved to the end of the word and then an -ay is added to that.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

People in Japan call them "harbor waves." Tsunami is a two-character Japanese word.

VOA: special.2011.06.07