Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter of resignation. Soloway, who had only a month before his one year term ended, expressed deep regret that Harvard "made its good and revered name available for the price of $1 million...
...lost my temper and did something that I regret," Repetto said, adding, "I didn't want to get all the facts." He said he has written a letter of apology to Parker but refused to discuss its contents...
...dissolved by Governor Botetourt. In defiance, the assemblymen moved up Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street to the Raleigh Tavern, where next day they reconvened in the Apollo Room and drew up a boycott of British goods. It was a warning that the British ignored, to their regret...
...casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality of life before it struck you in such a cruel...
Pleasant as all this may be to record, it does not add up to much. Mainly one will miss the manual machine simply because it has been around so long. We take unexpressed comfort from the sight of familiar objects, superannuated or not, tending to regret their absence even when we no longer require their presence. Then, too, we will miss the sound, the clackbop from the house next door that signaled the Great American Novel in progress, or the Great American Last-Minute Term Paper. Writers will miss their old machines greatly, even as they now flirt pantingly with...