Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandchildren to see ("They must grow up into internationalists"). He hopes, with his hosts, to establish a program of summer visits to each other's country by Japanese and American boys. He is even prepared to apologize for the 1942 raid, and as a token of his regret, he is going to present the Brookings Jaycees with the 400-year-old samurai sword he carried strapped to the seat of his airplane during his raids...
Last year, watching the stamp scramble mount, MacDonald began to regret his uncharacteristic 1957 decision to retreat from the field. Seeking the most effective re-entry point, he decided that A. & P. could not continue to buck the stamp trend much longer, set up the Plaid stamp plan especially for A. & P. "I went there cold," he says. But MacDonald had one overriding asset: since all the other major trading stamp distributors had already signed up with competing grocery chains, none of them were free to bid for A. & P.'s business...
...March 1961, after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption...
Official AMerican Telephone & Telegraph Co., proprietors of the Bell System, admits a twinge of REgret over the passing of the time-honored names, many of which are holdovers from the days of "Hello, Central, give me Main 444." But the telephone company maintains that there is no other choice in the face of rapidly expanding dialing facilities and the increase in the number of telephone sets across the nation...
...Regret is the modish literary emotion this spring; rue is back in fashion; hope's hemline has been let down to fit the century's middle age. So it seems, at any rate, on the evidence of two collections of criticism published this week...