Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found out that he was an inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
...Scientist Sinnott has spent a lifetime trying to heal the split between science and faith. "The two roads to truth . . . the way of science, confident in reason, and the way of faith, depending on the insights of the spirit, do not follow the same course." Yet man should not "regret these differences but rather rejoice in them. They are the two halves that make men whole; from tension between them, character is born...
...that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachments with the Georgian. And there will naturally and rightly be some concern about the fate of the Clubs. But if their place is equally well or better filled by the Houses, there ought to be no great regret if some of them at least go out of existence." Twenty-five years later, the Georgian has disappeared, and the Clubs have retreated into a far less prominent existence...
...pressed too far. As late as last April, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had defended Egypt's Premier Nasser as a sincere patriot despite his arms deal with the Reds. Last week Dulles termed Egypt's recognition of Red China "an action we regret." To emphasize U.S. displeasure, Dulles indicated that Egyptian acceptance of Russian aid to build the Aswan Dam would mean U.S. withdrawal from the $1.3 billion project. Next day Ike removed some of the sting, saying that a single unwelcome act by another nation does not "destroy friendship for that nation...
...France's time of crisis, Mendès' going was sad, full of mutual regret and surrounded with an uneasy sense of foreboding. Mendès made it clear that he was acting only for himself, insisted that the other 13 Ministers from his Radical Socialist Party remain in the government. "I think that the government that is now in power represents the best possible political formation," he said. "With all my heart, I wish [Mollet] success."One angry Socialist accused Mendes of "a low blow." Emotionally, the usually icy-calm Mollet defended...