I could see Powell on the ground. I did not even think about what to do, I just acted.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Sharp words from a teacher,for example, can usually get a daydreaming student to put both feet on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Controllers on the ground joked that the flight had gone so well they did not have enough to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Perhaps that will stop her crying. I walked to where the Princess Dejah Thoris was lying on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

They also suggest actions like providing protective boots to wear while working in fields, and not sleeping on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

" Some one with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

His tall hat flew off and soldiers found it on the ground with a bullet hole through it.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

When there is fresh snow on the ground, the surface of the snow takes in, or absorbs,sound waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Today,VOA broadcasts to satellites in space that send the signal back to stations on the ground that transmit programs with a clear signal.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08