An airplane had flown over the area where the birds were kept and spread a powerful chemical called DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

"It is," I said. "The wine cellar is just beyond these tombs where the dead of my family are kept.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

To the left of the front door, about fifty meters away, is where the Vanderbilt family kept its horses.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

During the first year, the women kept a monthly average of almost nine kilograms of vegetables for home use.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

And what kept me in a continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his glory and fame.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

He told reporters how the color of his skin kept him out of tennis games as a boy in Richmond.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

But marketing professor George Haley at the University of New Haven in Connecticut says China has always kept prices low.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

This law kept slavery out of the northern part of the territory which the United States bought from France.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Jacob Riis's concern for the poor kept him so busy writing and speaking around the country that he ruined his health.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In nineteen thirteen, she was kept under house arrest for nine weeks after helping to organize mine workers in Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In the eighteen hours until his rescue,he says, he kept his mind on prayer and playing music in his head.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15