Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade protectionism. If Presidents are judged by what they achieved as measured against their stated objectives, says Crane, then James K. Polk, who vowed to acquire California, settle the Oregon dispute and reduce tariffs, leads all the rest. Polk also possessed the ability to abandon power without regret. He quit when he said he would-after one term...
...week, at his retirement villa outside Rome, the author who came in from the cold said with a philosophic shrug: "I am no longer in the limelight, the airline no longer gives me free tickets, and many of my old friends don't know me any more. But I regret nothing...
...have a point. Though the court last week upheld Nannen, it took the unusual step of expressing "regret" that the complaint had to be rejected and encouraged the feminists to "work toward a true" portrayal of women. The losing plaintiffs could also take heart from a comment in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the decision was a "boxing on the ears [for]all those?especially men?who have shoved women into a dubious corner and defamed them...
...listen, too: who is it that intrudes here? Who is breathing? I pick a fern to see its spores, cast it away, and am filled in that instant with misgiving: the great sins, so the Sherpas say, are to pick wildflowers and to threaten children. My voice murmurs its regret, a strange sound that deepens the intrusion. I look about me - who is it that spoke? And who is listening? Who is this 'I' that is not always me? The voice of a solitary bird asks the same question...
...author's greatest regret was his marriage. The disastrous union had taken place half a century before, to a woman he felt had tricked him into an alliance that violated his basically homosexual nature. "You see, I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed...