Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diplomat and a highly successful currency speculator. As his stature grew, his sexuality shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk more champagne...
Nonetheless, Muscovites approached by Western journalists guardedly expressed regret and, at times, disbelief. "Come on, it's a capitalist joke," said one to a Western correspondent who phoned with the news...
...Arens admitted, "would increase the chance for an armed clash with Syria." Other options could prove no less incendiary. "The situation is fluid and dangerous enough for the Syrians to play games," said a top-ranking Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv. "It might be a game they will regret ever playing...
...article opens by assuming the "the Undergraduate Council last night became tangled in the sort of procedural arguments that some observers say have periodically 'strangled' its effectiveness this year," and this theme pervades the article. In the first place. I disagree with the presentation of this article, and regret that your newspaper has tolerates such rampant editorializing in a front-page "news" article. And in the second place. I disagree much more strongly with the article's conclusions...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...