Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests, and, as is assumed, lost his life during these tests. His presence in the vicinity of the destroyers occurred without any permission whatever, and Her Majesty's Government express their regret at the incident...
Birkhoff explained that the conference, sponsored by the Academy of Sciences, conflicted with previous commitments and it "didn't seem practical" for him to attend. "I am declining with regret. But Russia is a long distance away...
...become the darling of the theater's intellectuals. ("My only regret," wagged one of them, "is that I have but one library to give to Marilyn Monroe...
...Labor Party send an apology to B. & K. for Brown's behavior. The party indignantly refused. "It would be like apologizing for criticizing someone for knifing your brother," said one M.P. But next day Gaitskell called on the Russians at Claridge's, brought Brown's personal regrets, and expressed his own regret that the dinner had turned out badly. Khrushchev was unappeased...
...thin issue with bad material. All of the stories are competently written, but none of the authors seem to have any more pressing concern than telling a sensual tale, which means that the reader can put down the issue on any particular sentence without feeling the slightest regret, but that, on the other hand, he may pick it up again without severe foreboding...