Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese government ordered its ambassador in London to file an expression of "strong regret" with the British, not forgetting to mention that Tokyo reserved full right to claim damages for any Japanese fishermen who may have been near by. Actually, the British testing area is twice as far from Japan as Bikini, but this did not stop thousands of Japanese students from rioting outside the British embassy in Tokyo...
...greatest regret is the unfortunate, though unavoidable, time of year at which this superb collection reaches Cambridge. Examinations or not, this is no event to miss...
Last January the Christian Century began a four-part series on U.S. Christian cults and soon began to regret it. Author Marcus Bach, writer on offbeat religions (Strange Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...
...what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...
...eventually get the college education that will change her life. Frank Alpine knows that some day he will find the self-discipline to keep him from always turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing." But Morris was wrong, and Novelist Malamud proves him so in a tenderly moving funeral sermon by a rabbi who never knew...