Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Blood. To his father's regret, young Alec Home lost interest in fox hunting after falling off a walking horse the first time he rode to hounds. Home still follows his other boyhood pursuits: bird watching, butterfly collecting, flower arranging, piano playing. Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie ?2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as much will...
...Only a war of incredible proportions could overthrow Castro. Here people of both sexes and of every age carry guns and are capable of either murdering the government leaders -or over throwing the government if discontented. We regret that the American people are deprived of the facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last...
...flourish, a Denver printer willed five shares of his brewery stock to the president of the Colorado Woman's Christian Temperance Union. German Poet Heinrich Heine left everything to his wife on the specific condition that she remarry, "because then there will be at least one man to regret my death...
Rearguard Action. The explosion of vital statistics is amply evident from the island of Sylt, where pneumatic nudists jounce across the beaches, to the Spanish coastline, where bulgy Brünnhildes have already made the authorities regret their decision not to enforce a longtime ban on bikinis. West Germany's men's wear industry in recent years has had to add a new clothing classification, tactfully dubbed Boss or Manager size; nearly a quarter of all new clothes are now bought by customers of managerial girth, while sales of "normal" sizes are diminishing...
...begins with the notorious Economics S-1, "Principles of Economics." The largest course in the University during the regular school year, "ec 1" is a dull but "valuable" introduction. It is the course most students, in their more dutiful moments, vow they "must take" and few regret it. You too can be attacked by your local American Legion...