He returned back to Earth sometime later, looking shell-shocked but alive as a crowd of men along the desert ground rejoiced, video from state-run Press TV showed.

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Early on Tuesday evening, a shocked-looking Bill O'Reilly, a firebrand conservative talk-show host, went on the Republicans' favourite news broadcaster, Fox News.

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Carter, looking slightly shell-shocked by now, repeated the error minutes later and watched helplessly from his chair as Ronnie made a clearance of 92.

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The fact that Milner is pushing for a starting spot has come as a pleasant surprise to me, but I'm not shocked he is looking a certainty for England's World Cup squad.

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"I was a bit shocked because from looking at the way he was running through the rounds I didn't think he was going to break the record, " Malcolm told BBC Radio 5 live.

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Also left unsaid by Mr. Obama but free for the telling by Mr. Romney is that as the U.S. unemployment rate hit 9.5% in June 2009 and a shocked public was looking for a response, the new president introduced the Affordable Care Act.

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And I think while a year ago, they might have been shocked to the party establishment to embrace McCain, I think he's looking better and better to them now.

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He returned to the States in the late '60s, and he was shell-shocked and stayed in his house for a long time, couldn't handle looking at the bright colors and seeing the cars moving so fast on the freeway and things that he thought he was going to - looking forward to seeing, he couldn't handle them when he got back.

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