he whispered. He gave the remaining glass of whiskey to Henry just as the clock began to strike midnight.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight,Tuesday, the eighth of May.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

By midnight of Election Day, the results seemed to show that Democrat Samuel Tilden was the winner.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

In Australia, the city of Sydney begins each new year with a fireworks show at midnight.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

This offer was carried to Fort Sumter a few minutes before midnight, April eleventh.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

One of his best known recordings is this one, "The Midnight Special."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

By midnight of election day, it was clear that Lincoln had won.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

"In the Midnight Hour" became his first number one song.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

They returned from the Washington farm after midnight.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The party ended near midnight.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

She sang "Walkin' After Midnight,"

VOA: special.2011.01.16

she had hair like the midnight sky and she smiled up them with shining gray eyes As the old man lifted the little girl in his arms, Mother Moonshower put the rain babies into the silver basket.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

"According to news reports, the Polish prime minister was called at midnight."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Australian rock heavyweight Midnight Oil has been reformed for the occasion.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

are Ella Fitzgerald on "Midnight Sun."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Advisor to the president Rajendra Dahal says a move to install a new majority government is required under the Interim Constitution, since the parties refused to meet the president's Saturday midnight deadline to form a coalition by consensus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10