Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement issued after yesterday's meeting of the Corporation, President Pusey said. "It is a matter of deep regret to me and the members of the Harvard Corporation the Professor Buck has requested that he be permitted to lay down the heavy burden of administrative responsibility which he has ably and gallantly carried during more than two decades of outstanding service to Harvard...
...past he has done so with a flourish and grandeur spent the ten best years of my life doing opera," he says wearily, "and now I will do it only for special events. I'll concentrate more on the theater. If I have flops, I won't regret them. The size of a man is known by the size of his flops. And it is the fear of flops that haunts and paralyzes the American stage...
...Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes early to get a better view...
...president accepted Schlesinger's resignation "with much regret" and declared that "the academic world will be richer for your return...
...consumption of sunflower seeds there are several schools of thought. Biologists, I regret to say, dissect them. "Commonly referred to as a seed," intones the laboratory instructor, "the fruit is an achene (uh-KEEN). Make a longitudinal section, and note the massive embryo, the large, fleshy cotyledons. Is any endosperm present?" And without looking to see, he slips one into his mouth...