Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Substitute Faith: "It is really quite surprising to see how much the practice as well as the theory of Marxism presents a secularized form of Christianity . . . the quality of regret for deviations approaches genuine penitence...
...year has passed and Yale does not regret its rules change. If this were not enough to convince the Administration that it can trust the discretion of University students, it might observe the graduate dormitories, whose occupants enjoy even later hours than do the Yale students...
...thing to regret divorce-I regret them all. It is quite another to say that good men and women, lawfully married a second time, are 'living in sin' . . . Next time a respectable statesman who has had an unhappy life seeks comfort in a second marriage, I hope that Portugal Street will keep quiet about 'Our Lord's authority...
Just after midnight of the third day, the vigil on Astor Street ended. The convention had spoken, and the nominee strode before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline...
After he was sentenced to death for his attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November 1950, Oscar Collazo† showed no regret. Though he had lived in the U.S. for 14 of his 38 years, he burned with an unquenchable conviction that the U.S. had "enslaved" his native Puerto Rico. In his cell in the District of Columbia prison, the fanatical nationalist spent his time studying Latin, teaching a fellow prisoner Spanish, poring over the biographies of the great liberators Bolivar and San Martin. He would sign no petition for clemency on his behalf addressed to the White House...