Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week a four-column ad in the newspaper El Comercio called on Lima's Catholic women to congregate at Santa Rosa Church, a few blocks from the presidential palace, "as an expression of sorrow and regret before our Holy Father Pius XII in this hour of trial to our faith that has sent a shudder through the hearts of Peru's Catholics. We will pray for our church, for the sanctity of matrimony." Five thousand women-many from Lima's top society-heeded the call, parading past the presidential palace and the cathedral and chanting hymns...
Congratulations on your fine cover picture of Alaska's Governor Stepovich and the comprehensive article [June 9]. We regret that the roll-call bell did not interrupt him while he was eating a sandwich of our excellent Alaska halibut instead of the variety of seafood you mentioned...
...destructive missions over East Indonesia in which foreign and native shipping was sunk and damaged (TIME, May 12). Pope, a serious and not a swashbuckling type, had originally joined the rebels because he believed Indonesia was "turning Communist," said Pieters. He had now changed his mind and "expressed regret for what he had done." He will be tried by a military court...
...long-range decline of the whooping crane can be traced to progress and the ensuing process of swamp drainage. A more recent short run problem has been the happy hunter who blasts away and, to his later regret, destroys one or more Grus americana. The most immediate problem facing the whooping crane is unfolding at the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, where Josephine, a splendid female whooper, has just laid two eggs (referred to as a "clutch"). Since breeding wild in west-central Canada is a slow and dubious process at best, zoo breeding is a major hope...
...public schools, a citizens' committee issued a report giving them generally good marks in math and science, mixed reviews on a conglomerate English program called "language arts." After a startled glance at the history setup in the city's high schools, the committee observed: "We note with regret that World History is no longer required, however valuable the course in 'Contemporary Problems' may be. It is difficult to see how students can give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign-language teaching starts out well, ends badly: "The elective...