What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use machines to carry out the harvest.
Judith Ganes
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There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years; the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath?
Anthony Shadid
The Explorer slid, then it toppled over. The woman came out of the window when it stopped — she was curled up in the fetal position.
Kyle Freeman
[Marshall said that as the vehicle toppled over, he held on to Skelton, who has limited use of his arms because of childhood polio.] Everybody sort of fell over to the side, ... There's no cushion to it. It's all solid metal with bolts sticking out.
Jim Marshall
The boat was overloaded with more than 70 people in it. Passengers panicked when water started seeping in and some people jumped into the river, shaking the boat which toppled and capsized.
Anil Kumar
There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.
Janet Callison
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
The trees are many times larger and they were uprooted and toppled, blocking off roads. The girth, if you will, of some of these trees is very significant.
Geisha Williams
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