Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with deep regret that we refuse the opportunity of further demonstrating the athletic prowess of Radcliffe. Yours was a gallant offer, and we are sure that you will take our refusal in the self-sacrificing spirit in which it is extended, and not as an expression of arrogance at our own proven superiority. Sincerely your, Viven Mirken, Editor-in-chief, The Radcliffe News...
...officers treating captured Nazi and high German officials on a 'friendly enemy' basis. Any such incident has been in direct violation of my express and long-standing orders. Drastic measures have been set in motion. -... In the name of this great force and on my own. I regret these occurrences...
...field operations. Into the room also went General Marshall, Admirals King and Leahy, Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew, and War Secretary Stimson. The conference lasted an hour and 40 minutes. When it was over, President Truman, now aware of the sensational appearance of his trip, seemed to regret that newsmen had been notified. But they had sent bulletins long before...
...against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
General Patton undressed and was about to get into bed when he noticed that his watch had stopped. He turned on his radio, spun the dial to BBC and an instant later heard a voice, un-British with emotion, say: "We regret to announce that the President of the United States has died." A precise man, the General waited exactly two minutes to get the time. Then he set his watch at 12:15, put on a bathrobe and slippers, and walked back to the house...