Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually, however both have failed to divine that it is not so much the house which forms the student, as students who form the house. They should have told aspiring musicians, for example, not to regret missing out on a strongly musical house, but instead, to saw on their fiddles wherever they go, and thus perhaps create a new stereotype...
...juvenile delinquency in the U.S. The second, dealing with Queen Elizabeth's recent tour of Portugal, commented: "Elizabeth II is sorry that the world is not able to appreciate the hanging by the neck of Greek patriots in Cyprus or the butcheries of the Portuguese in Goa. We regret the low level of intelligence...
...received heavy play in the Montreal newspapers, particularly the evening Herald, which has been waging an indignant anti-hoodlum editorial campaign. Riggan, onetime Birmingham Post-Herald reporter who has been a TIME correspondent in Canada since 1953, was troubled less by his injuries (which were minor) than by regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading the accurate reports that 'Riggan's yells' frightened off the thugs. It would have been more gratifying if the stories could have read: 'The thugs fled under a hail of blows...
...favorite pastime has been beating systems--big systems, little systems, any old system. But we must admit that this pastime, which sometimes becomes a vocation, is an all-too-recent acquisition. This admission is made with some nostalgia for the good old days of youthful idealism, and with some regret for the many early years of stultifying diligence...
...denied himself the trust of those who could help him fulfill his original dream. He can only call in the help of Communists who, for the price of helping him, will enslave his people. Even as talk of a "successor" circulates in cafes and chancelleries, there are some who regret that a man with such promise for good should have been reduced by his overreaching ambitions to a cunning and reckless figure. Egyptians in time may say as Cato said of Caesar: "His virtues be execrated, for they have ruined my country...