Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pride in Carolina. Even more determined to have order is South Carolina, a state so proud of its colonial past that it is often said to regret the American Revolution. South Carolina has always preferred a polite white supremacy to redneck ruffianism. Unlike Mississippi, it is run by gentlemen to whom disgrace is far worse than desegregation. Governor-elect Donald S. Russell, former president of the university, paid only lip service to segregation in his campaign...
...liquor salesman could only have sighed with regret in 1954. Although a thousand relatively docile students filled the Yard and part of Massachusetts Avenue during a rally on the Friday night before the game, alcoholic beverages were...
Speaking of "restraint," it seems the World Council of Churches did not exercise much in expressing their "regret" about the U.S. quarantine of Cuba. They attacked President Kennedy's decision within 24 hours after it was announced...
...Taking their stand on statements made by the World Council Assemblies, Committees and officers of the World Council of Churches have on several occasions expressed their concern and regret when governments have taken unilateral military action against other governments. The officers of the World Council of Churches consider it therefore their duty to express their grave concern and regret concerning the action which the U.S.A. Government has felt it necessary to take with regard to Cuba, and fervently hope that every government concerned will exercise the greatest possible restraint in order to avoid a worsening of international tensions...
...Northern Rhodesia railhead of Broken Hill, where he once stoked coal as a locomotive fireman, Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the crumbling Central African Federation, issued a dire warning: "If the wrong people are elected, we will regret it forever...