Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce President Shogo Tanaka sent a letter of apology to the Chambers of Commerce of 30 U.S. cities for "the mob demonstrations fanned by a leftist minority." Japanese toymakers, who sell $50 million worth of toys to the U.S. each year, wrote directly to President Eisenhower expressing "heartfelt regret and shame" and explaining that 10,000 toymakers had planned to line his airport route to greet...
...name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi's retreat was an unhappy confirmation of his own growing doubts about the Ike visit. With a mixture of relief and bitter regret, Mac-Arthur phoned the news to the Eisenhower party in Manila...
...found it increasingly tricky to fault the Administration. Events moved so swiftly that a candidate had to take care with every word, lest a critical statement made in one context bounce back to bruise him in another-as Jack Kennedy discovered. Still the Democratic pacemaker, Kennedy was beginning to regret a remark tossed off in Oregon right after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident. Rolling wearily into Denver one night last week, Kennedy was met at the airport by a teen-aged...
Companies that get too comradely often regret it. When one firm decided to have monthly parties at employees' homes to promote togetherness, it "ran into petty personality fights, accusations of favoritism and severe back-biting that carried over into the office." After this experience, the firm reversed itself, told management to cut off all outside friendships with subordinates...
...slowly in the path of truth. In his first denial he seemed unaware of my visit to him and of the conversations we had. Now he recognizes having met me. I do not contest the right of Mr. Stevenson, like any politician, to change his mind. Today Mr. Stevenson regrets his declarations to me. I don't regret having reported them...