On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

More than two thousand people between the ages of forty-five and eighty took part in the study.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Sixty-five presidential historians judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten qualities of leadership.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

At two-forty-five in the morning, Reid suddenly declared the Senate adjourned.

NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

Just 758 words - a little under two pages of the forty-five in its glossy blueprint for "a governing agenda" - are devoted to mostly hortatory statements about demanding policies, "getting all hands on deck" and passing "clean" troop-funding legislation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The 'Peace Through Strength' Pledge

In the past forty-two years, he said, Africans have received five hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in aid, yet there has been no appreciable improvement in their living standards.

NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade