Word: regretable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...serving the team as ball boy. He tossed footballs with John Brodie, Billy Kilmer and Y.A. Tittle. When Dan signed up for a local Pop Warner team at ten, he wanted to be a receiver. His father quickly vetoed that idea, insisting he play quarterback. The son does not regret that Foutsian bargain: "If he hadn't, I'd be wearing a white belt, white shoes and selling real estate today...
...happy duty of throwing to a receiver named Lynn Swann, who has also managed to avoid the real estate business. During his senior year, Fouts was recruited by just one Pacific Eight (now Pacific Ten) team, the University of Oregon. The rest of the conference lived to regret its lack of ardor: Fouts set 19 school offensive records while passing for a three-year total of 5,995 yds. and 37 touchdowns. Picked on the third round by San Diego, he settled in at the feet of Johnny Unitas, then 40, who was finishing his football career. "I went...
...While we regret the violent murder of President Park Chung Hee of South Korea, we welcome the end of his rule, a dictatorship of the worst stripe marked by ruthless suppression of political opposition and civil rights. The end of Park's reign marks the first real chance for the liberalization of the Korean government since then-General Park seized power in the early...
Reading the excerpts of Henry Kissinger's White House Years [Oct. 8] I deeply regret that a law prevents him from ever being a presidential candidate...
Gordimer does not choose Rosa's way--and you sense regret, self-condemnation, and a wry self-knowledge that she could not live Rosa's life. Nevertheless, she seems to have confronted and accepted her personal commitment as an artist. "I do my work. I tell the truth as I see it. I say what I think, here and there," she says, proudly...