The plant was dimly lit but the cracks in the cement floor were impossible to miss.

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To your left, the dining area has a polished cement floor and wooden tables surrounded by comfy upholstered chairs.

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"I was digging down through this stuff, it was literally like banging your hammer on a frozen cement floor, " he recalls.

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She tells them how Anwar prays alone on the cement floor of his cell, and she reads messages written by him from jail calling for reformasi.

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They were given a storage room to sleep in -- there were no windows, no electricity and just a plastic sheet on the cold, damp cement floor.

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The dramatic ceiling vaults to impressive 43-feet at the center, providing an arched steel truss over a 150- by 234-foot cement floor making it an ideal venue for rehearsals as well.

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For the next three nights, she slept alone on a hard floor in a large, cement room.

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On the ground floor of the house is the men's quarters where male slaves were housed in a row of cement cells.

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