Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the nation, men & women read somber and heart-catching news in telegrams which began "deeply regret to inform you. . . ." For all the news was not in the newspapers, though some of it got into the news pictures (see cut). But that was not the whole story. Some of the story was in what U.S. mothers & fathers thought and sometimes wrote of their dead boys-such brave and sober thoughts as these...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune, which loves Tom Dewey so much because it hates Franklin Roosevelt more, last week chided its Chosen Instrument. "We think Governor Dewey made a mistake when he accepted so large a part of the Roosevelt program.... He will regret these commitments; they will not win him any votes...
...traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss of time...
...male surpasses the female in every test of physical capacity except those requiring fine, coordinated movements (e.g., sewing, buttoning, dressing, etc.). No woman has ever equaled men's records in any athletic activity. Even in horse racing, stallions are faster: only one mare has won the Derby (Regret, 1915)-and she had a big weight advantage...
Said Jinnah: "I regret to say that I have failed in the task of converting Mr. Gandhi. . . ." Said Gandhi: "The failure is only socalled. It is an adjournment sine die" Said Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar, who arranged the meeting: "I'll begin to dig in the river again when...