Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently intended to repeat in detail our private and purely social conversation, but his recollection . . . and his interpretations differ markedly from my own." The record of his successor, growled Ike, was a subject "on which I have formed no judgment...
...occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
President Kennedy expressed his "real regret" over Smith's withdrawal, but the White House sigh of relief was almost audible...
...arrows, circles and boxes, as well as pictures that make their point by having Xs drawn across faces (to indicate a man has lost power) and the unsettling practice of blowing up a man's features by cutting off his ears or his hairline. Said Denson: "Naturally, I regret leaving Newsweek after so many satisfying years...
...partly in being apprenticed to an emerging nation. "My only regret is that Africa has given me so much more than I have given Africa," reports one volunteer. Another says: "The confidence that Nigerians place in us is frightening, and I feel humbled...