51.   At several places along the Rameshwaram-Madurai highway, winds had uprooted trees.

52.   But ecologists said the miners destroyed the environment with mercury and high-pressure water hoses used to uproot trees.

53.   Cascading boulders uprooted trees and formed a wall of mud and debris that swamped lowland and riverside communities.

54.   Earlier Monday, Bertha passed over St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands, uprooting trees but doing relatively little damage.

55.   Even when the full-blown storm was still several miles offshore, powerful winds flattened simple mud huts and uprooted trees.

56.   Furious winds uprooted trees, toppled electric poles and ripped roofs off thousands of houses.

57.   Gale-force winds uprooted trees and flipped over dozens of cars.

58.   Government buildings were flooded and stone, sand and mud covered the Bus Terminal, where a wooden building had shifted and several decorative trees were uprooted.

59.   Gusts uprooted trees on the coastal highway of Lebanon.

60.   He charged that the Israelis are confiscating Palestinian land and uprooting olive trees.