Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DELEGATE TO WILLIAMSTOWN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS I REGRET MISLEADING IMPRESSION CREATED IN OPENING PARAGRAPH OF OTHERWISE FINE REPORT. YOUR ARTICLE SAID NEW HIGH IN RELIGIOUS INTERVENTIONISM WAS SET BY INSTITUTE AND THAT A BALLOT MIGHT HAVE REVEALED AN ACTUAL MAJORITY FOR A SHOOTING WAR NOW. MY OBSERVATION WAS THAT THE INSTITUTE SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS COMPRISED ALL SHADES OF OPINION-INTERVENTIONISTS, ISOLATIONISTS, PACIFISTS, NONPACIFISTS -A FAIR SAMPLING OF ALL POSITIONS HELD BY AMERICANS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHETHER AN ACTUAL MAJORITY COULD HAVE BEEN MARSHALED FOR AN IMMEDIATE DECLARATION...
...UNWASHED MISSES REGRET NO REAL NECESSITY YET. Mt. Holyoke...
...must be said . . . that the university enjoyed a certain measure of success in getting endowments, and perhaps other college presidents would like to try a detective in place of the conventional and tedious method of salesmanship. ... As for the general public, there may be only a feeling of regret that the detective work didn't take another direction...
...Unless the chain of command can be perfected . . . disastrous embarrassments and failures will be encountered during battle. Front-line capabilities of the Army's officers should and must receive the attention of all officers. I regret to say that our chain of command is weak-weak to the extent that if this condition is allowed to continue, the chain, at its weak links, will break whenever an emergency imposes a heavy load...
...twelve years U.S. cinemaddicts have listened patiently to "The Voice of the Globe" express his boundless regret at having to say farewell to Hong Kong, Stockholm, Ceylon, Prague and other scenes of his Traveltalks. The Voice belongs to a temperamental, blue-eyed romanticist named James A. FitzPatrick, the poor man's Burton Holmes, who is now seeing America last...