Word: lament
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...satisfying social life. I believe I speak for members of all eight clubs in saying that we too bemoan the College’s distressing lack of options for the socially active student, and would go to great lengths to help improve the social situation. Furthermore, we lament that this lack of options has drastically changed the role and position of final clubs on campus. Students must understand that final clubs share a common goal of improving social life at Harvard for all those concerned
Singer and Willett lament how squeezed for space GSE has become in recent years and how it has been forced to rent space around Harvard Square...
...Roman Catholics across the country fill the pews for Easter Mass, many lament the scandal that has shaken their belief to the core. "Of course we're outraged," says Herb Timm, a Winnetka, Ill., parishioner. Holy Family worshiper Ed Ternan called it a "milestone moment in the life of the church," tragic for the victims, tragic for the priests, tragic for the church. "The old way of dealing with it by not dealing with it is not going to work." Instead church leaders need to pray that they can find the remedy before parishioners lose their faith...
...These facts are not entirely to India's advantage: the truth that many of India's brightest talents have been "lost" to Britain and North America was a constant lament in the literary festival. And the violence that shocked Ahmadabad and Ayodhya the following week made a mockery of blind optimism. Yet in certain ways, I thought, India can be not only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present...
Lerwick is the largest port town in Mainland (the misleading name for the largest island) and the heart of the Shetlands. When someone from the outer isles speaks of those who have moved to Lerwick, it could be the lament of someone from the Ozarks who has lost a loved one to the mean streets of Manhattan. But Lerwick (pop. 7,280) is an Old World village, with a bustling harbor and historic stone monuments. The main drag, Commercial Street, set back from the esplanade and guarded from the wind, is a winding, echoing cobblestone path lined with appealing shops...