Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much to the regret of many of the sailors' dates and to Billy Rose, the contest for the most attractive date has been postponed due to circumstances beyond control...
...determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret his move or noticeably pine for the U.S. Air Corps...
...When these things are happening," General Patton said, "a commanding general is under great nervous tension. He may do things he may afterward regret. I know a great many people regard me as a - - --. . . . I dealt harshly with a couple of soldiers and was wrong...
...Makin Island raid in the summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno, who took the Trout into Corregidor with ammunition and brought out a cargo oi Manila gold...
Thus, after two thoughtful years in jail, wily Willie last week recalled with regret the old easy-come blackmail days. The defense attorney for Willie's eight ex-pals attempted to show that Hollywood's czars were as unprincipled about paying out the big money as Willie and the "boys from Chicago" were about taking it. Did Willie know that bribery, as well as extortion, was a criminal offense? Did he know that in New York a person who pays money to a shakedown expert might be liable under the bribery laws? Shakedown Expert Bioff considered the idea...