Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many bodies of victims were wrapped in white sheets for burial in hillside cemeteries; others were hastily placed in communal graves. The 80,000 homeless were sheltered in makeshift camps, 30 to a tent, at locations on the outskirts of El Asnam. The quake also opened up 12-ft.-wide fissures in the countryside as much as 30 miles away, destroying scores of villages and leaving an estimated 325,000 rural inhabitants destitute...
...Algerian government plans to expand the tent city to house the crowded survivors for three or four months until prefabricated housing can be erected. Meanwhile, the city itself is to be sealed off and leveled to the ground. Surviving residents surveyed their demolished homes and wondered if the fertile Chéliff River valley town was even worth rebuilding. Said one young man:"I had heard people talk about the 1954 earthquake. But I could never imagine this. I think we should find another place...
After 45 days in a refugee camp in Indian Town Gap, Pa., and a short visit to Miami, Rodriguez came to Chelsea on September 31, with 52 other Cuban refugees, mostly from Tent City...
Shortly after dawn one day last week city workers began pulling down the olive-drab tents under elevated Interstate 95 in downtown Miami. The campsite had temporarily been home to a total of 4,000 Cuban refugees. But Campamento del Rio (River Camp) also had been an eyesore and health menace because of its exposed electrical wiring, plugged storm drains, filthy toilets and tainted food. By sunset, the last tent was down, and the remaining 750 residents had been taken away by bus. Left behind were a dozen Spanish names spray-painted on the thick concrete highway supports...
With the British trapped in Boston, Cambridge became the cork on the bottle. Thousands of colonials poured into the town, sending Harvard to Concord so the College buildings could be used as barracks. But most of the soldiers slept in tents, a sight Emerson described: "Who would have thought, 12 months past, that all Cambridge would be covered with American camps and cut up into forts and entrenchments?... It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in forms as the owners are in their dress, every tent a portraiture of the temper and tastes...