This means a place that is fun and not serious, and maybe even out of touch with reality.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

My father backed the car out of his place in the barn.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

"All these elements who were training there, who were stationed there, are out of the place and could be acting independently,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

That is,indeed,the goal, which Susie has: to get out of this weird, trapped place that she is and to actually move on.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The reality is all the stadiums are done." "Then you said,no, they are going to run out of money before everything is in place.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

But at the same time, there is virtually no infrastructure in place within Japan to get those tons of food out to individuals out there who need it,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"At least one of the bombers detonated in the deepest part of the underground which made it hugely difficult both to undertake rescue operations and to carry out the forensic examination of the site which needed to take place."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

This urban setting has been pointed out by anonymous tipsters, who have come forward after 25 years, as the suspected final resting place of at least four people who disappeared during the civil war that raged in Guatemala during the 1980s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"Back before there were any awards of any kind for this kind of music, the reward for a blues man was a pocket full of change , some bills at the end of the night, and the knowledge that you've got a place to sleep out of the rain and the wind.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04