Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arena for this struggle was centered around Affirmative Action. "Affirmative Action," an often referred-to term, and rarely understood, became a common part of the vocabulary of many Harvard students and workers (and administrators, much to their own regret...
...evening pursuer by turning heel and hazarding that well-worn suggestion of what he could do to his ancestors, just as a staid gentleman with an attache case glanced in our direction. I still feel lucky that he didn't step out of the darkness later to make me regret the public injury. I plunged reluctantly into somber dissections of the mystery of romance. And a porter advised me that marrying him would beat bedding down on the floor of the train station...
...born and raised in Clinton, N.C., the son of two professionals who happen to be black. I lived in New Jersey for 13 years. I regret my return to the Sunbelt...
CRITICS LIKE BENSTOCK, Cockburn and even Niall Sheridan, mutual friend of O'Brien and Joyce, seem to regret O'Nolan's other identities: as Myles na Gopaleen, columnist for the Irish Times, and as Brian O'Nolan, civil servant (until he was fired for his opinions in the Times). Sheridan wrote of O'Nolan that perhaps "the demands of journalism syphoned off piecemeal his enormous creative vitality...
After reading the 240-page report, which is already selling by the thousands in Dutch bookstores at $5.60 a copy, the prince admitted that his friendship with top Lockheed officials had developed "along wrong lines." Said he: "I sincerely regret this." In addition to giving up his post as Inspector General, he may have to abandon some 300 other official roles, which range from chairman of the World Wildlife Fund to adviser for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In a televised speech to a tense and packed meeting of Parliament, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said that no legal action would...