In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The lights will stay off for one hour for an event called Earth Hour.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Language expert Barry Popick says on his web site that Chicago was called a "windy city" because of the wind that blows off of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He took off his mask and called loudly, "Beatrice! Come help me!"

VOA: special.2009.05.23

This is called "off-label" use of a drug.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

(Speaking) Endeavour blasted off from Florida to the Space Station last week, carrying the cupola, attached to the new module called Tranquility.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

That agreement also called for 8,000 marines to be moved off Okinawa, to the U.S.territory of Guam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

In an off-the-record comment, President Barack Obama called Kanye West a "jackass."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The U.S.Moon mission came on July 16,1969, when Armstrong, along with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, climbed into Apollo 11's command module called Columbia atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket and blasted off.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16