Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...address the hushed audience that jammed the meeting of the Pasadena, Calif, school board. Superintendent of Schools Willard Goslin announced that after less than 2½ years in office he was resigning. "I shall take away no ill feelings when I leave Pasadena," said he, "rather a deep regret that I was unable to lead this community to a level which would have produced the best school system in America." With those words, Willard Goslin brought to an end one of the bitterest school battles the U.S. had seen in years (TIME...
DeGuglielmo said last night that he objected with regret to the Council's offer of hospitality. At its meeting, he went on record saying, "We should not receive and fete a soldier who was fired because he disobeyed orders...
...regret very much that owing to my absence from Washington at that time, I shall be unable to join in," sadi Bonnet. "Please be assured of my sincere regret and of my best wishes for the success of the event," he added...
...Nation, of course, is not of a single piece: by no means all of its political articles represent the pro-Soviet liberal point of view ... In its basic editorial policies, however, it tends to speak for a small segment of liberalism-small but not insignificant. One looks back with regret to the time when the Nation spoke for all the liberals and was a better magazine than it is today . . . The Nation . . . has preserved what was weakest and blindest in the old liberalism, and has carried over attitudes that once were merely irresponsible but now are dangerous...
...hard to see that a merely excellent swimmer should regret going to Yale, where the announcement of his name is greeted by boos from spectators who want to see the world record holders, the men Kiphuth is nursing for the national championship...