On his second day as president, Lincoln received some bad news from Fort Sumter at Charleston,South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Some of them have some of the coupons clipped and then they stop and you know that it was bad news when they stopped clipping them.

一些息票被剪下来并兑现了,而随即又停止,当他们停止剪票,这可是坏消息

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In a half-hour news conference, he admitted making what he called "some incredibly bad decisions" that "hurt so many people."

VOA: special.2010.04.10