Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in ... England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government in a fatal course" (Churchill, The Gathering Storm...
...Washington, the State Department in a thorough flap recalled its travel ban and apologized publicly to Lattimore: "Sincere regret over the embarrassment caused..." Said the professor: "This incident...discloses how close we are to...Government-by-informer...The State Department must be taught that a citizen...may not be restrained or deprived of his liberty on the basis of a false and irresponsible statement or the scandalously irresponsible report of a so-called intelligence agency...
...high command in Korea. Then he stepped before a special meeting of some 300 M.P.s in the grand committee room of ancient Westminster Hall. The bombing, he said, was a military undertaking, not a political move, and the U.S. was not obliged to notify Britain in advance. He expressed regret, however, that Washington had not informed London; it was all, he said, an administrative mixup. Reporters in London, briefed on the private session, all wrote of Acheson's "apology"; when Congressmen back home set up a howl, the State Department announced that Acheson had made an explanation...
Among the hosts of Jews expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492* were the 2,000 of the Basque city of Vitoria-and Vitoria watched them go with regret. Eight years before, when the Christian doctors of Vitoria had fled from the bubonic plague, Jewish doctors had come out of their ghetto to minister to the town's sick and dying. Vitoria's city fathers gave their bond to the departing Jews that their ancient cemetery, the Judiz Mendi (Jewish Hill), would never be "touched, wounded or tilled...
...brother died two years ago, Charley began settling his affairs. Then he told the Governor of Wyoming: "I have no incentive ... to continue this life of shame ... I am ready to pay my debt to society . . . [although Hugh and I] paid a mighty sum in remorse, tears, lonesomeness and regret." Last week, 62-year-old Charley Whitney pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a district court at Kemmerer, Wyo. "I can see no purpose in sending you to prison," said the judge, and sent him back home, a man with a name once more...