Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Going short" is an ancient and accepted practice in securities markets. It is also such a hazardous endeavor that few market players save virtuosos are advised to try it, and sometimes they are sorry. Last week one such rueful expert was Wall Street's George Geyer, one of the nation's biggest dealers in insurance stocks, who closed the doors of his brokerage house "indefinitely" while he counted up the cost of going short...
...brassy air of confidence and command. There is a look of real kingliness about him as he stands, painted, costumed and toupeed ("The rug, old boy, the rug"), barking like a strangled seal to warm up his pipes before a tender scene. Veteran Director Michael Curtiz remembers with rueful admiration how Bogie, in the midst of a long, dramatic speech that would have had many an actor sweating with nerves, snarled, during a moment out of mike range, "God, I'm hungry...
Many white settlers were delighted. "Told you so," they crowed. "Now let's go on with the war." General Erskine was rueful: "It nearly came off . . ." At week's end, British aircraft equipped with loudspeakers swanned low over the forest with a new message for the Mau Mau: "This was the day set for your surrender. Your emissaries failed to show up. Now our major offensive begins." British troops and African Home Guards swarmed onto Mt. Kenya, driving the startled Mau Mau into ambush after ambush. Many did not know the truce had ended, and they died without...
Jameson is rueful that the bibliography in cheese is not more plentiful. He painfully feels this lack when preparing a report to the members on the cheese that they are sampling at the meetings...
...history of journalism." The stately Philadelphia Bulletin had a worse case of split personality. It had signed the agreement, sent a reporter to Bloomington, Ind. to get the Kinsey report story, and had his 3,300-word summary written. But it finally killed the story with this rueful notice to readers: "It is impossible to present any adequate summary of the findings without giving unnecessary offense to many in [our] large family of readers . . . For those who want it," the Bulletin added helpfully, "the book itself will be available next month." Slightly less timid, the Raleigh Times ran no story...