1.   His home is a flimsy wooden shack in a Watts alley, with only a hot plate, table and bed.

2.   And many farm invaders, who prayed and shouted as their flimsy shacks fell, saved their harshest insults for a government they believed had betrayed them.

3.   Andile Mngxitama scrambled after them, begging the police to spare the flimsy shacks.

4.   In a sprawling shanty town of flimsy shacks, unpaved streets and hopes strained by unrelenting poverty, Rosa Lugo is a woman on a mission.

5.   The house seemed a flimsy shack, its heating a roaring fire barely contained by the small dark basement, and a love affair fell apart.

6.   They are dying in flimsy metal shacks and in crowded hospital wards.

7.   His family of seven is crowded into a flimsy roadside shack hastily built on the edge of the road.

8.   In an instant, a river was reborn, dragging hundreds of flimsy shacks away, burying concrete homes, and sweeping dozens of lives toward the sea.

9.   Many of the victims lived in flimsy tin shacks in slums on hillsides in the capital.

10.   Since then, Haitian victims who received no government help have rebuilt flimsy shacks made of light boards and zinc sheets of the kind Georges shredded with ease.