But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Helen was on the floor, kicking and screaming and trying to pull the chair out from under me.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pull the oxygen out of the fire.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The idea is that the matter we see does not have enough gravitational pull to keep galaxies together.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Food containers that are not waterproof include those with screw caps, snap lids,pull tops and crimped caps.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

That is,this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, that with enough determination and hard work that you can transcend limitations of money or class or gender.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

After about an hour of being beyond the pull of Earth's gravity, Glenn reported he felt fine.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Many of the animals die when people harvesting other kinds of fish pull in sharks by accident.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

But carrots loose their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

the sharp sounds of leather whips, ordering the dogs to move and pull the sleds.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Climbers have to pull themselves straight up the face of very high rocks or walls.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

"They are seeking," he said, "to pull down the temple of freedom and representative government."

VOA: special.2010.09.09

An electric motor helps the operator pull a heavy load or go up a hill.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

The park has about eighty overlooks where you can pull your car off the road and enjoy a view of nature in all its autumn beauty.

VOA: special.2009.09.21