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  • Despite unbelievable obstacles and rubble-choked streets, a massive, coordinated flow of aid -- including clean water, medicines, food, and immunizations -- has reached hundreds of thousands of children and families.

    Caryl M. Stern: The Humanitarian Successes In Haiti Caryl M. Stern 2010

  • Television has made it as vivid as a bomb-blasted building or a rubble-choked street.

    When Little Children Have Big Worries 2008

  • It was rubble-choked crawlway too narrow for my body, with sunlight at the end.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • On some burning deck, slippery with the blood of the fallen, perhaps - or in the rubble-choked alleys of a seaport under sack, where the flames of burning temples painted the skies with crimson.

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • He made a quick cast through the shell-wrecked village, drew blank, sat for fifteen minutes on the curb of a rubble-choked well and thought hard, jumped up and called the Corporal to provide him with four men and some odd tools, and struck back across muddy and shell-cratered fields to the nearest farm.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • Although the action remains fairly small scale - a bloodied mess of chainsawed torsos, close-combat gunfire, and kerb-stomping - there's a greater sense of the war going on around you this time, from the Reavers strafing ground troops glimpsed out of the dirty glass of the hospital windows, to a brief trip through rubble-choked streets, while distant - and not so distant - chaos erupts all around.

    Eurogamer 2008

  • Although the action remains fairly small scale - a bloodied mess of chainsawed torsos, close-combat gunfire, and kerb-stomping - there's a greater sense of the war going on around you this time, from the Reavers strafing ground troops glimpsed out of the dirty glass of the hospital windows, to a brief trip through rubble-choked streets, while distant - and not so distant - chaos erupts all around.

    Eurogamer 2008

  • million Haitians advised to leave earthquake homeless camps in the rubble-choked capital as disaster officials watched the approach of the storm.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • million Haitians advised to leave earthquake homeless camps in the rubble-choked capital as disaster officials watched the approach of the storm.

    FOXNews.com 2010

  • million Haitians advised to leave earthquake homeless camps in the rubble-choked capital as disaster officials watched the approach of the storm.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

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