And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

They stopped laughing when they found he could do the hard work of a cowboy as well as any of them.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

When he stopped teaching at Howard, he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

As she told a friend once: "In a life that stopped guessing, you and I should not feel at home."

VOA: special.2010.07.18

It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

But soon they stopped. For the cow was now in violent pain, and they could see the calf's whole head.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

The person is not breathing. If such conditions describe the situation, chances are the heart has stopped beating.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

We stopped in the afternoons to fish for a few minutes in little rivers turned black by the acid of cypress trees.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

He was on his way back to the United States when he stopped to visit friends in London.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

That night, at meetings throughout the city, blacks in Montgomery agreed to continue to boycott the city buses until their mistreatment stopped.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

When I reached for one of the two glasses left on the table, Tom stopped my arm.

VOA: special.2009.07.04