Most of the stories were short. There was heavy use of color and images and things like opinion polls.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

These were the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii was an important port for American trade ships sailing between the United States and China.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

A TV was on. My eyes were elsewhere, but my ear was caught by the unmistakable voice of Walter Cronkite.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

At the time that Miss Jordan left Congress, there were widespread reports that failing health was the cause for her decision.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Colonel Parker made sure that songs Elvis had recorded earlier were released during the years he was in the army.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Supplies were very low. There was not enough food to eat, no shoes to wear, and little left to fight with.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Politics and public policy issues were avoided until the New England Courant was published in Boston in seventeen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

"And the box was open and there were probably about five or six of these little round, yummy-smelling warm doughnuts in there.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So,many people were shocked when Roosevelt announced he was taking action under the law against the railroad trust.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

He had a plan,he said. And he would not move until he was sure his men were ready.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

If these offers were rejected, Slidell was to try to buy part of California for five million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.19