Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave the restraining order very reluctantly because I had not heard Harvard's side," Adams said. "I don't regret its issuance but I see no reason for its extension...
Piano lessons started in the fifth grade--"I was going to start in the fourth grade but I took a musical aptitude test and flunked it"-and continued until this past summer. There was little parental pressure to be a star and she doesn't regret starting lessons so late, "because when I did begin, my parents didn't have to nag me to practice." She spent the first month of the past summer studying intensively under Russell Sherman, a teacher associated with the New England Conservatory. Sherman at one point, Krag says, told another pupil of his that...
...four had written letters to Sirica in hopes of avoiding a prison sentence. Only Ehrlichman's new lawyer, bearded, long-haired Ira M. Lowe, revealed in court what his client had pleaded. Ehrlichman, said Lowe, had expressed his "profound regret" for his role in the Watergate conspiracy. Wrote Ehrlichman: "I have been found to be a perjurer. No reversal on appeal can remove the stigma." Lowe said that Ehrlichman had asked to be allowed to spend his sentence working with 6,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, using his legal talents to help them with land-use problems...
...criminals expressed his dismay that Solzhenitsyn had not gone to Stockholm to collect his 70,000-ruble ($78,000) Nobel Prize in 1970. "You could have bought so many automobiles with that money!" Touched by the man's naive pity, Solzhenitsyn felt his first twinge of regret at having decided not to go to Sweden. Believing that he would probably die in jail, he dreamed for a moment of owning an isolated little country house where he might live for another ten or 20 years, have a real library, write his books, and live the normal life...
Stephen's borrowing of Kael's phrases without crediting her was an inexcusable breach of critical honesty and integrity, and we deeply regret that we published the article...