31.   The SS division that laid waste to Oradour included volunteers and conscripts from Alsace, a French territory annexed by the Germans when they invaded.

32.   The show has laid waste to just about everything in its path, plowing through nights like Sherman going through Georgia.

33.   They laid waste to what they could as they retreated, but the greatest destruction came in their push north two years later.

34.   Together, they have laid waste to a game that is having a difficult enough time perpetuating itself in this video game, cyberspace world.

35.   Under siege by profiteers laying waste to the venerable trees, the dwindling forest provides refuge for some lost, embittered Vietnam veterans.

36.   With Barmore handling the coaching and Hogg the recruiting, promotions and the like, La Tech laid waste to this relatively new sport.

37.   A coup laid waste to the capital.

38.   A drought this year has laid waste to one-third of its farmland.

39.   A year ago, the Indonesian army and its paramilitary gangs laid waste to the province after a U.N. referendum ended with an overwhelming vote for independence.

40.   After two years of devastating floods, the North was hit by a drought that has laid waste to one-third of its farmland this year.