Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jaanimets. who was granted political asylum, could only guess what reprisals might be aimed at his mother, four brothers and sister, who still live in Estonia. But he did not regret his decision. "I am not a man of speeches," he said. "I did it that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs...
Kennedy ran into foul weather. The rain that had turned the fields into a sea of sticky mud started up again just as he began to speak. Said he, looking down at some 20,000 damp faces: "I regret the rain, but it rains, as the Bible tells us. on the just and the unjust alike, on Republicans as well as Democrats." He was right: when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon...
...Marianas, had packed home 100 gallons of tax-free liquor aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard, listing the bottled goods as a bundle of tables, carvings, peacock chairs and fishnet floats. Said the admiral manfully: "The main point is I did it. I was caught, and I regret it very much...
...seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...
...year, came onto the floor in a wheelchair to introduce a bill regulating insurance rates. Speaking at the length that had earned him the title of "the most de liberative member of the world's most deliberative body," O'Mahoney referred only once to his leavetaking: "I regret that I shall not be a member of the Senate next year when this work will be done...