• Back at the patrol base, he curled up in the fetal position outside his tent and sobbed.

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  • Washington has promoted low interest rates as a housing cure-all, while Wall Street cowers in a lawsuit-weary fetal position.

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  • When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position.

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  • Harris and Freeman scrambled out of their row, stepping over a motionless woman in the fetal position to get into the aisle.

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  • They were allowed to kneel next to him on the floor, where he was lying in a fetal position, and remove his blindfold.

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  • Citizens first saw King, who had been drinking that evening, as he lay in a fetal position on a street next to his car.

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  • Like many, I suffered those final miles into Central Park, and I nearly curled into the fetal position during a low moment as Brooklyn crossed into Queens.

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  • The two paratroopers took a grip on the prisoner's arms and lifted him into the crater and set him down on his side, curled up in a fetal position in the round hole.

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  • He went to a retreat of Republican House members last week where he told them, reportedly, there were no press in the room, that if he watched his poll numbers, he would lie in a fetal position on the floor.

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  • In early 2012, they laid the bones in formation on the workshop floor and shot a photograph from overhead: a large dinosaur curled in a loose fetal position, with Eric kneeling beside it, hands on hips, smiling up at the camera.

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  • On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.

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  • His doctors (along with the psychiatric nurses and the social workers who led the daily therapy groups) had encouraged him to uncurl himself from the fetal position and try, at least try, to watch television or play a board game with the other patients, but this had mostly proved too great a challenge.

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