Many had slept out in the open for the past few nights, braving last week's sub-zero temperatures.

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He had only slept seven out of the last hundred hours.

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The stench from overflowing toilets and drainpipes made some cabins uninhabitable and many people slept in corridors, while others took bedding out into the open to escape the heat and foul smell.

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She slept most of the time and could do little out of the house.

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The blaze broke out as 45 children aged from six to 12 slept inside a single room with wooden walls and zinc roofing in the Medina district, witnesses said.

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Over the years, he has broken down in New Jersey and slept in a McDonald's parking lot in Utah, all in the name of finding out a little bit more about this world.

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"I just tried to go out there and give it all I had, " said Harden, adding that he slept all day.

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We slept the soundest when our next-door neighbor was a state police officer and parked his patrol car out front.

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