Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rest for Wang meant a transfer from combat to a staff job (under surveillance) back in the hills. The commissar called on him regularly. But Wang's heart remained troubled. "I must think more," he said. "Fighting Japs I suffered much and gave my blood without regret. I could do so because my heart took part in the struggle. Now my heart forbids." When Kalgan fell, Wang's weary heart had not changed. As his unit prepared to retire into the mountains, he straggled behind and sent a message of surrender. A Government detachment picked Wang...
...beard is as silky and flowing as Victor's is square cut and bristly, took the Christian view of his rival's plight. Said he: "Archbishop Victor is a good man, well known for his charity and his love of the people. All members of the Church regret the misfortune that has befallen him, and we shall pray for his early release...
...overly suspicious. I dislike all Germans and hate many of them more than any man should hate another. I have seen things which made me rejoice to be a member of the same species as those who did them. But I have seen much more that makes me regret that I was born into this century...
...regret to find your report of my remarks at last night's Harvard Forum inaccurate and misleading. I urged for both Russia and America more constructive compromises and greater generosity toward the European peoples now unwillingly caught between the millstones of the Eastern and Western blocs...
...Agreed with Senator Robert Taft that the Nűrnberg trial would be "long remembered." Taft said it would be remembered "with regret" (TIME, Oct. 14). Mr. Truman hailed it as the "blazing of a new trail in international justice...