Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have long cherished a desire to visit the United States and to meet and learn to know her people," Japan's Emperor Hirohito told United Press Correspondent Wilfred Fleisher in 1921. "I greatly regret that I am unable to carry out my wishes on this occasion, but since it is only a fortnight's trip from Japan to the United States, I hope it will only be a deferred pleasure." Hirohito's pleasure has been deferred for 51 years, but the trip is less formidable these days. So the Emperor, now 71, plans to accept President Nixon...
North Dakota does have many advantages obvious to those discerning enough to notice. We regret that your reporter did not have that ability...
...which, the Journal implied, is considering both civil and criminal proceedings in the matter. Meanwhile, an embarrassed Otis Chandler can only ponder the cruelties of misplaced friendship. "Jack called me a couple of times after the trouble started," Chandler told TIME. "He was in tears telling me his profound regret. He tried to apologize. I didn't accept...
...close his chronicle just at the moment when the great Communist experiment was about to be put into dreadful practice. For this new edition, Wilson has added a short preface, corrected some errors. (He had been, he admits, too kind about Lenin's character.) But he shows no regret for not having carried the story further. How right he was. The book does not emphasize, but is dramatically explicit about the horrors of Stalinism. It is also perceptive about those aspects of Marxian theory and practice that bode ill for revolution: the assumption that unlike other classes, the working...
Heath accepted his resignation with genuine regret, describing it as a "bitter blow to us all." Maudling may yet return to the Cabinet once the Poulson investigation is completed. But the whole affair has probably put an end to whatever chance he still had of becoming Prime Minister. That is a pity, for, as the London Times noted, "as a businessman Mr. Maudling was often mistaken, but as a politician he had the useful habit of often being proved right...