The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So,in eighteen fifty-seven, Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

"We all agree, " Lincoln continued, "that the so-called seceded states are out of their correct relation with the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The band became so popular that in nineteen sixty-six John Lennon said they were more popular than Jesus Christ.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

I then replaced the wooden boards so well that no human eye -- not even his -- could have seen anything wrong.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It is so crowded that we are packed like sardines - just like small fish in a can.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

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

VOA: special.2009.05.21

There were so many people at that time- and at that time a crowd of 20,000 people was a very, very large crowd.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The Government Accountability Office reports that state and local governments have received twenty-nine billion dollars so far.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The most that can be said -- if so much -- is that slaves are property.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

She said doing so could be seen as pre-judging cases that the Supreme Court might consider.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Miz Mead wrote that many so-called male and female characteristics are not based on sex differences.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

You feel so cold that your body starts to shake -- not very much, but uncontrollably.

VOA: special.2009.12.30