Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take a field you like and in which you are interested if you can find one, for the work will be much easier. To choose Economics because it might be useful in business and not because you like it is the kind of mistake many make and later regret...
...sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...
...Thank you very much for your contribution," said the nurse as he walked out. "Don't mention it," he replied benignly. Just as he got to the door, however, he could not resist the temptation. He turned, struck a pose, and declared to the world at large, "My only regret is that I have but one pint to give to my country...
...turn out the vital munitions of war." Australia also looked to the U.S. "for counsel and advice." That was why, Curtin explained, his country (with "no belittling of the old country") had insisted that the Pacific War Council should be in Washington. It was "a matter of some regret, after 95 days of Japan's staggering advance south, ever south," that Australia had not yet obtained "firsthand contact with America." Accordingly, he announced that Minister of External Affairs Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt was being sent to Washington. A great leftist authority on constitutional law who lectured at Harvard...
Three times in three years Lady MacRobert, Massachusetts-born widow of Sir Alexander MacRobert of Tarland, Aberdeenshire, was handed one of the tiny yellow envelopes. Inside each one was a telegram beginning: "The Air Ministry regret...