One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

"Summer in the City" was released in the summer of nineteen sixty-six and was one of the Lovin' Spoonful's greatest hits.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

At U.C.L.A. the man known simply as "Coach" had a record of six hundred twenty wins and one hundred forty-seven losses.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Let us begin the Olympics,thank you." About one thousand competitors from twenty-six states and Canada took part in the event.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Pirates have attacked at least sixty-one ships so far, compared to six for the same period last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

In the last two years, only six people were found guilty of poaching charges out of forty-one arrested.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

She became one of six inaugural members of the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame in nineteen sixty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The decision was a major one. It forced the huge company to separate into thirty-six different companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The Seattle P-I was one hundred forty-six years old -- the oldest daily newspaper in Washington state.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

One night in nineteen thirty-six, the young musician decided to take part in a "jam session."

VOA: special.2009.05.03

On July thirty-first, the ship traveled six hundred and one kilometers in only twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The loans are a share of the one-hundred-fifty-six-billion-dollar rescue deal that Greece secured last year.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

"Rhonda Smith of Tennessee described how in two thousand six her Toyota-made Lexus sped up for a time to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Six other states followed by the time he took office in March of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The agency says more than six thousand people worldwide have died because of H-one N-one.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Cleveland could have paid him one hundred twenty-five million dollars over six years to stay.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Gene Fowler wrote that Barrymore was considered an "eighty-six" at one drinking establishment,or bar.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

It would prevent future disputes over presidential elections, like the one in eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Activists say Kenya has at least one thousand six hundred of these non-formal schools.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

By February first,eighteen sixty-one, six states had followed South Carolina out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Vertebrate species,for example, decreased by nearly one-third between nineteen seventy and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

One of these companies continued to make a profit digging gold until nineteen sixty-six.

VOA: special.2009.02.11