Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forced now by the death of his old friend to run Luxembourg virtually alone, Bech's only regret is that he will have less time than ever for golf, fishing, gardening and collecting 18th century French art. "The ceremonies," he says mournfully, "the monuments, the inaugurations, the this, the that...
...regret that I do not have the time to discuss in detail all of the miscellaneous attacks that are made on social security. However, I may say that my general reaction is that the basic points made in your editorial are sound and that to the extent that Mr. Campbell has attempted to meet them he has failed...
...Resigned "with regret" from the Sons of the American Revolution, and confirmed the fact that he had resigned from "several hundred organizations" since taking office. Ike feels that he should belong only to those organizations in which he can be an active member...
...collapsed, but that Mrs. Bovard, who was at the meeting, was unhurt. "Never mind that," snapped Bovard. "Have you got the story for the Post-Dispatch?" On the day he resigned, Bovard told Reporter Sam Shelton, who is now assistant to the publisher: "There are only two things I regret upon my retirement . . . One of them is the unsolved Neu murder case, and the other is [the Union Electric Co. of Missouri] across the street." The P-D never did solve the Neu murder, but two months later its exposures touched off the prosecution that sent Union Electric...
...complaint against the U.S. is not so much-as your Nov. 16 article suggests-that your policy is inspired by principles [as] the fact that there is more "obvious self-interest" about it than the rest of the world can stomach . . . British Socialists and Tories alike regret the American failure to base its policy on a moral purpose which "needs to be wider and last longer than an alliance based upon direct, obvious self-interest in a transitory local situation." Immediately after the war, the Americans were far more determined than we were to destroy Germany; they were ready...