One of, if not the, most emotionally draining moments of my life, and yet the elation and joy when I saw he was OK made it all worthwhile.

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During its construction, with its windows not yet fully installed, he stared at the edifice and saw what looked like a gaping whale, an image that gave him an admiring chuckle.

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He and his wife Lauren were yet to find the woman they saw on TV, but were happy to take anyone who wanted to stay.

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Yet, though Mr Almodovar sought to shock Spaniards out of what he saw as their straight-laced complacency, his films nonetheless celebrate the home, the family and the power of motherhood at the core of Spanish life.

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Here was a guy whose job had him on TV every week with some different reporter or celebrity, yet it would still tickle him enough that he wanted to make sure his parents saw the story.

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Yet he returned to England at 23 and except for a brief visit in 1892 never saw India again.

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Bubba Watson, who had yet to tee off, said it looked like "goofy golf" from what he saw on television.

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While crisscrossing the city to attend middle school in the city's wealthy north, he first noticed the inequity of Chicago's classes, how the white families he saw up there weren't any better than his own and yet their sanitation trucks seemed to trundle by more regularly.

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The Czechs battled bravely for an equalizer, but Sionko saw his 83rd-minute header tipped over by Ricardo from yet another set-piece when it seemed he should have scored.

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