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"In my eyes Neil loves to win 10-0 so I wanted to beat him 10-1 or give myself something to focus on so he didn't get back in it," said the 36-year-old Englishman.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Nana didn’t seem to mind that I went to Cuba; but she wanted to know if I met anyone handsome there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The most dissenters from the rates policy was two, in July, and both wanted no more than an earlier quarter-point cut.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

For by now, in addition to the workers whom we wanted to initiate into the system, we had three more permanent boarders: Thea Dacosta, Meta Monsanto, and Mary Itallie.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom