Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed the lineup was so unimpressive that Trainer Leroy Jolley took the uncommon step of entering a filly against the colts. Genuine Risk was the first filly to make the run for the roses since 1959. Only one female had ever won the race, Regret in 1915. Said one bookmaker: "Any time a Derby field isn't strong enough to scare off the girls, you've got trouble...
...Tehran, Barbara Timm, who had journeyed there to see her hostage son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, snapped: "I'm angry that our President would do something so stupid." Accompanied by her husband to a press conference in the office of Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr, she said, "We deeply regret" the U.S. rescue attempt, and offered "apologies" to the Iranian people. Then, as Banisadr smiled, she posed for cameramen under a portrait of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, embraced her husband and broke into tears...
...Washington, John Limbert Sr. had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he wished the President's patience had not run out. On the other, he felt compelled to support his decision. Said Limbert: "I called the White House and expressed my regret and condolences to the families of the servicemen who died, and I asked that the President be told that I understood what he was trying to do." Mary Needham felt much the same way. But she was worried that heated discussion of the rescue attempt could further endanger the lives of the hostages. Said she: "When...
...soothe offended feelings, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington sent a personal cable to Saudi King Khalid expressing his own "profound regret" over the program. To some members of Parliament, that smacked of unwarranted groveling. Complained Labor M.P. David Winnick: "It is undignified to see a British Foreign Secretary virtually apologizing to a feudal state about what has been shown on TV in this country...
...scoreboard eventually showed the Islanders on top, but Bruins fans will remember the first-period fights. First O'Reilly took on Clark Gillies; then Garry Howatt and Wayne Cashman went at it (they would meet again); John Wensink, to his regret, met Bob Nystrom; and Gillies and O'Reilly tangled once more seven seconds before the first period siren...