Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business" when he was paroled and fled to West Berlin. There police caught up with him again. "I stand here innocent," Kaduk shouted at the court. "I chose the West and I bitterly regret it. I never dreamed of such injustice...
President Pusey "accepts with regret" the resignation of Dean Monro, who has been named the new president of Southwest State Teachers College. Announcing that he will become acting Dean of the College, Mr. Pusey comments, "I'd like to find out what's really happening in the College." As a Hallowe'en boax, the Lampoon distributes a parody of the Harvard Lampoon, which is, however, instantly spotted as a fake because, as one student says, "it was funny...
Married. Letitia ("Tish") Baldrige, 36, Jackie Kennedy's former social secretary, who on departing the White House last May said "the only thing I regret is that I didn't find a good man to marry"; and Robert Hollensteiner, 32, Chicago real estate agent; in Manhattan...
...Africa, in quest of a rare plant from which cortisone could be produced. Leading scientists were more than his informants; they were also his friends, who respected his ability to translate the labyrinthine mysteries of their profession into language that almost anyone could understand. Last week, not without regret, Science Editor Bill Laurence, 75, announced that he is retiring after 33 years on the Times...
...every time he registers his car, makes the telephone directory, buys a home, rents an apartment, joins a book club, contributes to a charity, shops by mail or takes out a credit card, his name is apt to be noted by some listmaker. No matter how much he may regret it, his name is a marketable commodity, rented for 2? to 3? each time it is used...