Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Committee had a name for such procedure. "I regret to say," said its chairman, "that some Government officials do their best to conceal the inefficiencies and whitewash the failures of the contractors...
...Congress he said: "I regret to call to your attention the fact that neither of these two essential pieces of legislation has as yet been enacted into law. That delay has now reached the point of danger to our whole economy...
Franco himself took over the post of chief of the Falange, naming as the Party's vice president Manuel Mora Figueroa, an aggressive Falangist just returned from service with Spain's Blue Division fighting Russia. Without a quiver of regret for Serrano, the Falange newspaper Arriba declared: "Our internal policy follows its unmistakable line and our foreign policy is sealed with blood and reaffirmed in silent heroisms...
...regret is that it is not longer! . . . We believe that this type of article on our good State is just another example that TIME is out in front . . . and we trust this will set the tempo and the style for future salvos Arkansasward...
Bitter Tea. Under General Stilwell, the U.S. airman commanding these squadrons is Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, who founded, trained and led the A.V.G. until the Army displaced it (TIME, July 13). Outspoken but discreet, General Chennault last week made no secret of his regret that he had been unable to keep the A.V.G. intact. Only six of his superbly schooled, battle-proved pilots had followed him into Army squadrons. Most of the A.V.G.'s equally skilled and valuable ground staff (including several R.A.F. orphans who were technically ineligible for U.S. service) had also dispersed. They were angry...