Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were entirely wrong when you wrote that "some ailments seem almost preferable to their cures." I had scoliosis two years ago and I will never regret the year I spent in my "turtle" and other casts...
...Eaves) is a conservative, tradition-minded Democrat who passed the bar exam at 19 after "reading law" in the office of a family friend, won his court appointment in 1951. In his handful of segregation cases, Rives has invariably decided for liberalism, but not always without a twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year...
...West German government stiffly advised the Soviet embassy of its "regret" that the incident had occurred, but a spokesman emphasized this did not imply diplomatic apology. Since Smirnov is noted among Soviet diplomats for his even-voiced courtesy and easy charm, the German news agency D.P.A. concluded: "Smirnov could hardly have acted in such an unusual manner for a diplomat if he had not had instructions from Moscow...
...Flowering of New England) Brooks wrote of him, "that he could not hear the knock on the door when people came to see him. So his friends took to thrusting a newspaper under the door, which they rattled back and forth till he saw it. Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from the art world. When he was told that some young painter had received a deserved recognition, he would...
...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...