Word: regretable
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...project of their own. "In the '30s," says one government expert, "it would have been unthinkable for Canada to pro pose to go ahead with the Seaway on its own. In the '50s, we were quite willing to do so, and I think most of us now regret that...
...creative personalities" like his own. At book's end he pulls himself together, steps back into the only role he was ever able to play, and with a sly Irish twinkle in his prose confesses that his wicked, wicked ways have left him with one deep and painful regret: "I never learned to play the piano...
Thus left without a cause, the Free Press and the Times were inclined to drop the subject. But not the News, which was still troubled by the court's "inherent right" claim. "We learn with regret: we're not in contempt," it editorialized last week. "We will try to violate the suppression rule to the judge's satisfaction, and thus get the question on the proper road to settlement by a higher court...
...These accusations are all true," said the man called Durieux. "The Red Hand is proud to claim them. But we do not exult in murder. Our big regret is that innocent people have sometimes been victims of our counteractivity. But terrorism begets terrorism. The moment the Algerian rebels lay down their arms in complete surrender, the Red Hand will no longer need to exist...
...invitation to visit Britain, and perhaps follow it with a boat trip to the U.S. and Canada. Mid-May, therefore, might be appropriate for the summit. All this was a far cry from Eisenhower's original proposal for a December summit. But without expressing either irritation or regret, the U.S. and Britain accepted what they did not want but were not prepared to challenge...