Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cherington, who admitted regret that he could not vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt next Tuesday, maintained that in the face of a return to government by Congress "Mr. Dewey is more likely to be a success in the mid-twentieth century American Presidency." He cited Dewey's ability to organize good executive staffs as District Attorney and Governor of New York...
...knew it-even cope with: patience . . . this land was a desert and a witness . . . of the deliberate turning as with one back of the whole dark people on which the very economy of the land itself was founded, not in heat or anger nor even regret but in one irremediable invincible inflexible repudiation, upon not a racial outrage but a human shame...
That was the sort of extreme statement -like Herbert Hoover's remark about grass growing in the streets-which might bounce back and make Candidate Truman regret that he had ever said...
...Have fun, because when you're my age, you'll regret every day you didn't." With this parting paternal advice from Columbia University's President Dwight Eisenhower, 29 students from Europe and the Middle East set off on a tour of the U.S. During the next 24 days, they slept in farmhouses and penthouses, ate at Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled...
...Signed the $6 billion appropriation for the foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...