Word: regretable
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...didn't even mention the heresies of Dole and Bush. He was his old positive self, sunnily extolling democracy, tax cuts, free enterprise, Thomas Jefferson and the space program. Afterward, the man whom aides have tried to wean from expounding at length on the gold standard had only one regret: "I wish I had time to mention Bretton Woods...
Nobody remembers why, but in the early 1970s, the Harvard Lampoon fell afoul of then Councilor--now Mayor--Alfred E. Vellucci. And the semi-secret, social organization that occasionally publishes parodies came to regret...
...judge to be lenient with Nasser Zuhadi Kakmeh, 16, because the youth had been wounded in the leg while throwing stones and bottles at security forces and was now repentant. "I want to hear it from you," the judge told the defendant. After a long pause, Kakmeh replied, "I regret what I did. I'll never do it again." His sentence: 45 days in jail and a $193 fine. On the Gaza Strip, the penalties were harsher. Many of those who pleaded guilty were jailed for three months and fined up to $644. Outside a courtroom in Gaza City...
...Pete Rose has a regret, it is that his second son will not remember him as a player. "Ty" Rose recently observed his third birthday...
...native Russia, Selznick nonetheless had a forgiving nature. When Czar Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, he sent him a cable: "When I was a poor boy in Kiev some of your policemen were not kind to me . . . stop I came to America and prospered stop now hear with regret you are out of a job . . . stop feel no ill will . . . if you will come New York can give you fine position acting in pictures stop salary no object stop reply my expense stop...