He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So the people of Kansas got another chance to show that they did not want a pro-slavery constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

We got advice from a park ranger experienced in search-and-rescue for the National Park Service in California.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

The president said groups like al-Qaida would surely use a nuclear weapon if they got one.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

And then you do twenty-plus miles the next day,you sleep in a tent, you gotta wake up and you got to do it again.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

But when she's a-spittin' like a wildcat,a man's got no call to live with her."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

After high school,she got a job in one of the few workplaces with wheelchair-accessible bathrooms.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

I watched it for perhaps a half-hour until my curiosity got the better of me.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

"Worst. The worst was also the funnest, 'cause I got up early Thanksgiving day and we went to the Burwick Marathon, but it's a nine-mile road race.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

She got a job with the DuPont chemical company in nineteen forty-six.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Now,after the marriage ceremony Slue-foot Sue got a really bad idea.

VOA: special.2011.06.11