Finally,the voice of Thomas Stafford came through the silence of Space: "We are thirty-six meters apart and sitting."

VOA: special.2009.07.01

His breath was suspended. His blood was still as if to assist the silence.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Then the hunter's rough voice broke the silence.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Conducted by the U.N.Children's Fund and the University of Ziguinchor, the study says breaking the silence around sexual violence in the region is key to protecting girls.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The silence she says breeds impunity.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

He says the almost overpowering silence and deepness of the Grand Canyon shakes people at least briefly out of their self-importance.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

(Silence) On April tenth, Jefferson Davis sent his decision to the Confederate commander at Charleston, General Pierre Beauregard.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

It caused strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world seemed to increase a man's fear of death.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He had a terrifying experience serving in the United States Air Force in Saudi Arabia and suffered PTSD in silence for years after.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Words like these come to mind as visitors enter a world of silence, darkness and cold, almost two hundred thirty meters under the ground.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

LeBron James will try to silence the critics when the basketball season starts in October.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Then there was silence. American Navy ships and planes searched the area for fifteen days.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

He seemed a part of the darkness and silence of the forest, for no one had ever known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

The radio silence, caused by the heat of re-entry, lasted for seven minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

One was silence. The other was the recorded sound of a coral reef.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

She shivered at its silence. She hurried up the stairs, almost with guilt.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

There was silence for a moment. Then the first man spoke again.

VOA: special.2009.01.01