It is only natural to be scared of zombies, and to prevent them from laying waste to your home.

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Together, Carol and Max picked up a long log and ran at a nest that had survived intact, laying waste to it.

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By the late '60s, he was a University of Washington forestry student, a "young greenie" worried about clumsy ski-resort developers laying waste to nearby mountain passes.

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Here we spend Act II straining to see whatever it is that's laying waste to the city, and Act III recoiling from glimpses of something unspeakable.

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Development is laying waste to the region's natural richness.

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