Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phrasemaker. Big, 64-year-old Max Gardner had a sneaking regret that he would not be required to wear breeches and silk stockings at the Court of St. James's. He has well-shaped, muscular legs; in college he was a football star. Not that he cottons much to this king stuff. But he likes a good time...
...lengthy exposition of this country's policy toward China, the Chief Executive formally expressed "deep regret" that peace and unity have not been achieved in that country and asserted that China "has a clear responsibility to the other United Nations to eliminate armed conflict...
...Dear comrade. . . . Because I know nothing of foreign languages I have been unable to give you any help of consequence, an inability which I regret as much as anything in my whole life. But I regard your translation as superior to any before it.-I hope you will continue until you have finished the entire New Testament. Thus you will slake the thirst of all Christians in China . . . and help our Christianity spread ever more widely. Best wishes, Chung-cheng" (Chiang's intimate or "courtesy" signature...
...believe that specific requirements should be restricted to specific courses of study in college and we would regret to see a more rigid yardstick of admission applied to able students of diverse school preparation...
...register. Conductor Karl Krueger had signed up with the Detroit Symphony. Sponsors debated whether to try out a new conductor or cancel the next concert season. In the end, they hired lanky Efrem Kurtz. Since that time, three years ago, they haven't had a moment's regret...