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Mahut is no stranger to Wimbledon marathons having come off second best in the longest ever Grand Slam singles match, an 11-hour-five-minute first-round tussle won by American John Isner in 2010.
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Trump has already come off second best in one showdown with Pelosi -- in the government shutdown at the turn of the year -- that showed how presidents are most exposed in such situations and often stand to take more of the blame.
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Holland has been a proponent of state education over private, saying in 2014 > The wealth that the leading [independent] schools can call upon has become > obscene. How can state-funded schools possibly compete with sports fields > and state-of-the-art facilities that have seen sport, acting and even > popular music dominated by the privately educated? Which said, I am not > convinced that the teaching in private schools is any better than in state > schools. Our local primary school has teachers as good as any you could hope > to meet, and when I compare the start that it has given my children to that > given to the prep-school pupils I know, I do not remotely feel that my > children have come off second-best.
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Glading and Pollitt's colleague in the CPGB—and later the latter's biographer—wrote of their escapades in St Malo. Pollitt, says Mahon, borrowed an expensive-looking watch from Glading to make an impression on Brewer: "In later years", wrote Mahon, "when [Pollitt] had come off second best in a tiff with Marjorie, who always had a mind of her own, he would say to Percy, 'It's all your fault for lending me that bloody watch'." Glading and Pollitt had been among the founders of the CPGB, Pollitt was to be its General Secretary between 1929 and 1939 and from 1941 to 1956. When it was founded, there had been a proposal that a triumvirate composed of Willie Gallacher, David Proudfoot, and Percy Glading act as CPGB leadership; in the event, a single general secretary was appointed.
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