Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive committee of the HSU, in accepting Gottlieb's resignation, said, "We regret that we feel forced to accept Alan Gottlieb's resignation from the presidency. The program adopted by the membership of the Student Union calls for opposition to any aid to the belligerents as a fundamental plank in its anti-war program, and we cannot but feel that Gottlieb's advocacy of aid to Great Britain and support of the Administration's program is in contradiction with our desire to keep the Student Union an anti-war organization...
...Even today in certain quarters there are, I regret to say, demands for a return of government to the control of those few, who, because of business ability or economic omniscience, are supposed to be just a touch above the average of our citizens...
...must be a matter of some regret to many students that the University, this year in particular, is amazingly deficient in courses dealing with Latin American relations. It's pretty sad commentary to find the only course offered to undergraduates in any way connected with this now-vital subject is History 75a, course in Mexican history...
Last week, to a chorus of backslaps and compliments, Selznick International formally announced its dissolution. After a weekend together at Whitney's Saratoga estate, Whitney and Selznick released to the press the S-I epitaph. "It is with profound regret," they said, "that we feel that the risks involved, due to world conditions, made it desirable for us to take this step...
...Almost invariably it is pretty stale stuff. Wyndham Lewis may have an advantage in being half American; in any case his America, I Presume is a bracing exception to the general rule. Some of it is obvious, some misfires, a good deal is so good it inspires keen regret that it is not a great deal better. Taken as a whole, America, I Presume can be guaranteed neither to bore nor blindfold any U. S. reader...