And he became a giant killer of sorts when he knocked off Sen.

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He disliked an excessively pedagogic approach to teaching English - "Give them Jack the Giant Killer and Tom Thumb", he wrote, "and then let them have Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver".

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The Swede will now meet Tomas Berdych after the Czech giant-killer battled back to see off Fernando Verdasco.

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For me, killer robots and giant grasshoppers had nothing on people.

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