Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
...with a confidence and pride surpassed only by a parting regret that we wish them good luck and happy hunting. Carry...
...commoner. He was killed in Belgium in World War II. Air-minded Hubertus joined Hitler's Luftwaffe, rose to a captaincy, was at last reports still flying. Debonair Friedrich, the youngest son, was caught in London at the war's outbreak, interned in Canada, not to his regret...
...first day of the Luzon bombardment General Lumsden was killed on the bridge of a U.S. warship in Lingayen Gulf. In London, the War Office announced his death "with deep regret." MacArthur did better by him: "It is superfluous for me to speak of the complete courage which this officer so frequently displayed. . . . His general service and usefulness to the Allied cause was beyond praise...
Laments and Regrets. The man who will be the 99th occupant of the Throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury received the press around the Christmas tree in Fulham Palace. His Lordship, a bald, long-eared, thin-lipped man, shoved the oldfashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles from his hooked nose to his forehead, jokingly lamented the terrifying job of moving in wartime, seriously lamented that anyone new should have to go to Lambeth Palace just now. Said he: "My great regret is that there should be this vacancy to fill. I knew Dr. Temple from the time when I was an undergraduate...