Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 1,500 students met in a mass meeting to deplore the appointment. The Student Council, by 8-3 vote, wished that someone else had gotten the job. The faculty voted 186-160 not to express regret at Painter's appointment. Painter, in accepting the acting presidency, had announced that he did not want the job permanently. Campus posters punned: "Painter Getting Too Big for his Genes...
...Note of Regret. Winston Churchill, who called the White Paper an "able but melancholy document," realized with a note of regret that the Empire was, indeed, in liquidation. "No one will doubt," he said, "the sincerity and earnestness with which the Cabinet ministers and the Viceroy have labored to bring about a solution of the Indian difficulty . . . with a zeal which would be natural were it to gain an empire, not to cast it away...
...Committee expressed itself as "extremely pleased" at the variety and qualifications of the candidates. "We regret that we must choose only one out of the group," the Committee said, "because it means the elimination of a large number of men who would be more than capable of fulfilling the responsibilities involved...
...positive beliefs, political or nonpolitical. Before committing the murder, he goes about his daily work, makes friends casually, attends his mother's funeral casually, casually promises to marry a girl. When the time comes. he quite as casually pulls the trigger of the revolver. Meursault does not regret it. Murder, he feels, makes no difference, for everything in life comes "to absolutely the same thing...
Said she: "This is the house in which my husband was born and brought up. He loved this house. . . . Here he played as a child. . . . Here he spent the summer, nine months after he was stricken. . . . Here he grew strong. . . . So it is with no regret that . . . I see this house and its contents dedicated to the people . . . whom my husband loved...