Tulip poplars simply defoliated in September and early October, when their foliage turned a drought-related yellow. ❋ Joel M. Lerner (2010)
In the world that has "developed" since 1971, it has been fought in the barrios; it has defoliated land and driven peasants into even worse poverty. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Lam said that after the battle, the area was heavily bombed and then defoliated until there were no trees left. ❋ DAVID MARANISS (2010)
Somewhere out there beyond the elephant grass and the rice paddies and the hills that had been chemically defoliated or burned by napalm, Bedcheck Charlie was prowling through the darkness in black pajamas and a conical straw hat and sandals fashioned from the rubber strips he had sawed out of a truck tire. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)
The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)
Agent Orange defoliated the forests, Agent Blue killed crops, and a lot of both chemicals landed on people, including American troops. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Vietnam, which was defoliated to scorched earth with napalm and Agent Orange by Henry Kissinger and "Edsel Bob" McNamara didn't need Starbucks help to become the world's number two coffee producer ranked by the International Coffee Organization (www. ico.org). ❋ Unknown (2009)
And John McCain is floating through with the look that he has absolutely no idea what a bush is unless you're talking about defoliated shrubbery that can be used for political cover. ❋ Unknown (2009)
South Vietnam was laced with a gulag of prisons; the countryside was defoliated, napalmed, and emptied of peasants who were forced into concentration camps, euphemistically known as "strategic hamlets." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Arctic ecosystems are known to be vulnerable to disturbances [24] and to have long recovery times: subarctic birch forest defoliated by insects can take 70 years to recover [25]. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We're guessing it's an aviary shaped like the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra, its usually feral-vegetated chain link fence panels temporarily defoliated. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many thousands of hectares of forests are defoliated in outbreak years and defoliated forests require about 70 years to attain their former leaf area. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The defoliated forests require about 70 years to attain their former leaf area, although insect outbreaks in subarctic Finland followed by heavy reindeer browsing of regenerating birch shoots have led to more or less permanent tundra [91]. ❋ Unknown (2009)
