"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

I saw it clearly -- all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

People who reached out for emotional support at the time - and received it - reported better results from the crying experience.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

He says the earlier study gained so much recognition, it became -- in his words "fixed in many people's minds as true."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

But scientists examining the remains of a dinosaur say they have found evidence it had brightl -colored feathers.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

The go-between sees to it that money is passed - often illegally - from one person to another.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

It contains science-fiction violence and also language that may be inappropriate for children under the age of thirteen.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

Another proposal would add two years to the full retirement age for Social Security -- raising it to sixty-nine by about twenty seventy-five.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

So math -- or,as the British call it,maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

Wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail from eighteen twenty-two until a railroad replaced it in eighteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.03.30