Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of them had some acquaintance with the world. They found that it was what everyone said it was: a big, frightening place presided over by the Great God Job. That's why most seniors, on this last day at the College, suddenly feel a sense of uneasiness and regret. The soft days are over...
...writing to President Conant by the same mail expressing deep regret that, if the reports be correct, he approves any such recommendation. And saying that it seems to me a repudiation of the best traditions of intellectual liberty and personal honor which Harvard has in the past so nobly upheld. I also earnestly urged his reversal of such reported contravening of our academic ideals. Rev. Eliot White '92 Episcopal Diocese of New York...
...office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with AEC's account of the recovery of almost all the missing uranium...
...irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about him which would warrant his not being employed by the Army for security or any other reason ... I most sincerely regret any aspersions upon the character or loyalty or integrity or ability of this outstanding citizen...
...greatly regret that my 93 years do not permit me ... to repeat my [1931] visit to Moscow, which remains one of the brightest of all my cherished memories," wrote Bernard Shaw, declining an invitation to the 150th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birthday. He sent good wishes anyway: "The Soviet Union still interests me more than any other state in the world, including my own country...