Word: regretably
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...already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business" when he was paroled and fled to West Berlin. There police caught up with him again. "I stand here innocent," Kaduk shouted at the court. "I chose the West and I bitterly regret it. I never dreamed of such injustice...
...quite. While the Dutch and Italians exulted, the Coal and Steel Community's High Authority, which has the power to overrule its member nations, hastily met. It took only 15 minutes before High Authority President Rinaldo Del Bò, himself an Italian, emerged to announce that "with deepest regret" the High Authority had found it "indispensable" to raise the tariff on steel. That gave the higher-tariff backers the right to put the new rates into effect immediately, although those that oppose them can still appeal for a judgment by the Common Market's Court of Justice...
President Pusey "accepts with regret" the resignation of Dean Monro, who has been named the new president of Southwest State Teachers College. Announcing that he will become acting Dean of the College, Mr. Pusey comments, "I'd like to find out what's really happening in the College." As a Hallowe'en boax, the Lampoon distributes a parody of the Harvard Lampoon, which is, however, instantly spotted as a fake because, as one student says, "it was funny...
Married. Letitia ("Tish") Baldrige, 36, Jackie Kennedy's former social secretary, who on departing the White House last May said "the only thing I regret is that I didn't find a good man to marry"; and Robert Hollensteiner, 32, Chicago real estate agent; in Manhattan...
...Africa, in quest of a rare plant from which cortisone could be produced. Leading scientists were more than his informants; they were also his friends, who respected his ability to translate the labyrinthine mysteries of their profession into language that almost anyone could understand. Last week, not without regret, Science Editor Bill Laurence, 75, announced that he is retiring after 33 years on the Times...