11.   The snow that still covers the brown earth of northwestern Iowa first whitened the ground as people headed to the polls last November.

12.   The writhen trunks of the massacred trees rose as branchless spikes from the loamy brown earth.

13.   There is driving rain and wind, a stark black backdrop and brown earth.

14.   They cut the two-foot-high plants down to the brown earth, gathering the seeds in their hoppers.

15.   As the twisted bodies were hoisted from the reddish brown earth, villagers pressed against the crude wood fence at the edge of the cane field.

16.   At the corner of the field was the half-open grave, only an arm and hip jutting from the brown earth.

17.   Groups of leather-coated men with nowhere else to go stand on the hard-packed brown earth and smoke and try to fix blame for their woes.

18.   Wheeling around, he pointed at another slope, where deforestation, rain and seismic tremors have sent torrents of brown earth dangerously toward adobe settlements below.

19.   For next summer she chose to restrict her palette to nature, earth brown, terracotta red, charcoal grey and neutrals like beige and ivory.

20.   In the maze of trenches which score the brown earth, the soldiers are agitated.