Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, at a glittering White House diplomatic reception, Jimmy Byrnes could savor freedom, a dramatic moment, and heartfelt expressions of regret. He beamed and said: "There are two happy days in the life of a man in public office-the day he is elected and the day he steps out." The unexpectedly early news reached General Marshall as his C-54 snored steadily eastward through the skies over Okinawa, bringing him home from China. At eleven o'clock at night, Shanghai time, the plane's pilot, Colonel H. C. Munson, came back to tell...
Less than 55 minutes after the nomination reached Capitol Hill, the Senate had stamped it with its unanimous endorsement. Its enthusiastic acceptance was tempered only by words of regret over the loss of Byrnes' services...
...fire began. In a large measure, the over-all success of the recent meeting of the U.N. Assembly in New York is owning to the efforts of a man who it is now revealed wanted to resign as long ago as last July. It is with genuine regret, then, that the majority of Americans watch the departure of Mr. Byrnes from the Secretaryship of State...
...confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
...tried to hoard it. He had roamed the town more eagerly than ever, as if to take with him all he could of the sharp flavor of the characters he half-created, half-observed: Milk Ear Willie, Harry the Horse, Sam the Gonoph, Light-Finger Moe, and Regret, the horse player. He spent many nights cruising with Walter Winchell, his fellow Hearstling and perhaps his closest friend, chasing police calls...