They refused even to talk about selling California to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Father and son did not talk or even look at each other.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

One warned the president not even to talk about it.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

"As long as I can remember, it was animals,animals. Even before I could talk, I was watching earthworms and things, reading Doctor Doolittle books, wanting to learn the language of animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

But he says even with stories where animals talk, sometimes it can be really hard to reach children.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"Even though I never had a chance to talk to him, I can imagine when he was here how he had to stay focused against all the odds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

They even had a priestcome and talk to me.

VOA: standard.other

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19