Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret calling TIME to task for misstatement in the issue of Oct. 28, wherein Hiram Johnson of California is quoted . . . as follows...
...only regret that Mrs. Greenough did not let herself intrude a little more into her book--that she relied so much on documentation, and not enough on personal observation. This is particularly regret table when one sees with what easy charm she handles the sections on C.N.G. as Uncle Toby, the ideal companion to his adoring step-children...
Britons saw him off with sincere regret. They respect Joe Kennedy because he has run his Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest...
...when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want war, and I regret making your acquaintance under these circumstances." Then they talked business. The German terms were hard but not unacceptable. The Vichy press even approved the "grandeur" of Hitler's attitude toward his beaten foes...
...England is a polite nation and they have a sincere regret for war. There was no flag waving at first but once aroused they are the hardest people in the world to beat...