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In the spring, the district is alive with pink and purple opium poppies; these days the same fields are thick with chest-high marijuana plants.

An Afghan Alliance Takes Unexpected Turn Michael M. Phillips 2011

"This is a very difficult problem to ever draw a picture of or even to see; it's a tough one," O'Malley told a handful of Goldsboro residents and state workers as he donned chest-high waders and waddled toward the side of Lake Bonnie as a stiff wind pushed the temperature near freezing.

O'Malley wades in polluted lake to 'make a point' on septic bill 2011

He pointed out the chest-high water-level marks: "It came all the way up to here."

Two Dogs Defy the Wave Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

Across the street, John Clingan rummaged through the ruins of his house, a chest-high pile of cinder blocks and jagged debris.

Tornado survivors hunt for memories 2011

About an hour after the quake, Mr. Sato said he went to see how the office had weathered the tsunami and the water level was already chest-high.

In One Hard-Hit Town, Recovery Begins Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

Many more streamed in on Sunday from a nearby Buddhist temple, fighting their way through fetid, chest-high floodwaters as they cross what used to be a six-lane highway in search of safer terrain.

Flood-Recovery Effort to Test Thai Leader James Hookway 2011

Bogoro, April 17 -- Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country's wars.

Lessons 2010

When the started flooding, he rigged a series of pumps, powered by a generator in the back of his pickup truck, in hopes of diverting a chest-high torrent to the other side of a nearby road.

Weakened Irene Rakes Coast Barry Newman 2011

Outside, the walls are covered chest-high with red muck, an indication of the extent of the surging flood of the corrosive sludge.

Hungary Orders Probe Into Toxic-Sludge Spill Veronika Gulyas 2010

About an hour after the quake, Mr. Sato said he went to see how the office had weathered the tsunami and the water level was already chest-high.

Japan Comes to Grips With Damage Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011