Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher from nearby Bien Hoa, describes what happened: "Not a blade of grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull yellow and the ash-gray covered the earth and stretched like a mourning shawl toward the horizon...