Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NEWSPAPER ASSETS OF THE TIMES-STAR WERE SOLD YESTERDAY TO SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS, OWNERS OF THE POST, AND HAS DISCONTINUED PUBLICATION. SINCE THERE IS NO MORE WORK AVAILABLE, WE NO LONGER REQUIRE YOUR SERVICES. PERSONAL BELONGINGS MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE TIMES-STAR ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WE REGRET THE BREVITY OF THIS NOTICE...
Concluded the delegates, in a final resolution that some observers called a new Magna Carta for African women: "We regret that in Africa marriage is considered a contract between two family groups rather than two people." Main calls to action: a complete end to prepuberty engagements, a change in the bride-buying custom to make the money only symbolic, suppression of polygamy, "which gravely prejudices the dignity and the rights of woman...
...When the Patient Is Sick." By the time the Council reconvened, the British had landed in Jordan. Taking the offensive, Lodge endorsed the British decision, went on to regret the Swedish position. "When the patient is sick," he said, "is no time for the doctor to leave." He insisted that the U.N. observers had not been able to get behind all the rebel lines, cited U.S. evidence of infiltration, added that the shrill incitements of Cairo newspapers and radio alone constituted interference. "Is the United Nations to condone indirect aggression in plain clothes from outside a country?" If it cannot...
...gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...
Boyington soon had learned to regret his impulse. The pay that had seemed so attractive-$675 a month, plus $500 for each Japanese plane-bought familiar pleasures: whisky and women. But though the Tigers were all technically civilians, Greg found himself jousting with superiors again. There was the old, retread captain who turned the boys out for a military muster every morning, and the group adjutant in Toungoo who threatened so many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days...