Defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon is with the Brookings Institution in Washington: "You had friends and enemies everywhere on the battlefield, and so that,for the most part, meant that if you got into trouble as a westerner you had potential help not too far away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He said Lincoln had removed Democrats friends of his -- from government jobs and had given the jobs to Republicans.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But his family and friends knew he still believed in the causes he had sung and written about all his life.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

And the smaller the physical distance between friends, the larger the effect they had on each other's happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

He didn't seem to need the money. He had many friends among the best families of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

The new study found that friends of happy people had a greater chance of being happy themselves.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

"Our daughter was a very outgoing child. She was a bubbly personality, very involved in all kinds of things, had lots of friends.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

In a moment, his two friends had picked him up and carried him into the bedroom.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

He remembered the long dinners where he had to talk to his wife's friends for hours.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Most of his friends believed the shock of losing all his money had taken away his ability to reason and to live in the real world.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

As a young child, Clara had great difficulty studying and making friends at school.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Friends of Katharine Graham said she would be remembered as a woman who had an important influence on events in the United States and the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Paley's friends and advisers told him that he had made a huge mistake.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Sometimes Al even had to accept hand-outs, gifts from his family and friends.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

Her parents had turned from her and her friends laughed at her.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

In July of that year, Darwin's friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker had studies by both men presented to the scientific group called the Linnean Society of London.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

She wrote to one of her friends about her dream of one day owning a house with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The beautiful Missus Greenhow also had some very special friends.

VOA: special.2009.08.27