Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regret that," he said...
...interpreted as a series of legends abandoned. Not only did Paul Revere never say "One if by land, two if by sea," and all that, but he never even got to Concord to warn the Minutemen of the oncoming British. Nathan Hale probably never said on the gallows, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Jefferson preached that all men are equal, but he kept slaves, and so did Washington. And Betsy Ross never sewed that first American flag either...
Melcher, who is writing about the evolution of the Viet Nam Communist Party, started his research last February. He says, though, that he didn't work very hard at first--something he's beginning to regret now. "This fall, I'm supposed to be one step ahead of everyone, but it's not quite working out that way," he says...
...unwinds at her country house in Quogue, in Long Island's chic Hamptons. In the shower her taste runs more to What's Love Got to Do with It? than to Mozart, and occasionally she will dance the night away at a disco, although the next day she will regret having subjected her voice to the noise and smoke...
Both captains regret that they will not be around next year when the young Crimson team--with a year of tough play behind it--will be one of the favorites to capture the Ivy crown...