Sentence examples for camp town from inspiring English sources

As I set off early from the base camp town Fortuna, I did begin to feel a little daunted, particularly when I saw the lower slopes where evidence of its destructive effects were all around me.

As a tornado rips through the sawmill camp town of Rapture, in the rousing opening scene of Joe R. Lansdale's historical barnburner SUNSET AND SAWDUST (Knopf, $22), Sunset finally puts a stop to her husband Pete's bloody beatings by grabbing his.38 and shooting him in the head.

"If the question is, was there active government complicity, support of such camp town prostitution, yes, by both the Korean governments and the U.S. military," said Katharine H. S. Moon, a scholar who wrote about the women in her 1997 book, "Sex Among Allies".

Jeon, 71, who agreed to talk only if she was identified by just her surname, said she was an 18-year-old war orphan in 1956 when hunger drove her to Dongduchon, a camp town near the border with North Korea.

Contrary to the social recognition that revitalization of Itaewon would be difficult without relocating military bases within the area, Itaewon is undergoing a rapid transformation from a camp town to a culturally vibrant neighborhood.

While many cultural regeneration projects are led by the city government and supported by public funds, the presence of cultural entrepreneurs in Itaewon, a camp town in central Seoul, has led cultural regeneration of old neighborhoods through their artistic pursuits combined with entrepreneurial practices.

"Well the church bells are calling/ Police cars on fire," sings Anderson, like a camp town-crier preaching bloody insurrection, and then quickly turning crazed witch-catcher and shrieking "But deceit can't save you!" And then there's the odd musical flourishes: the crunching guitars, the blaring horns, the creepy choir of kids gleefully chanting "We will watch them burn".

Many former prostitutes live in the camp towns, isolated from mainstream society, which shuns them.

These days, camp towns still exist, but as the Korean economy took off, women from the Philippines began replacing them.

But the women say few of their fellow citizens know how deeply their government was involved in the trade in the camp towns.

"The idea was to create an environment where the guests were treated well in the camp towns to discourage them from leaving," Mr. Kim said in the television interview.