Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prudential President Orville E. Beal beamed over the coup, while Metropolitan's Fitzhugh was understandably rueful. "We wish we had stayed in first place," he said. "When you've been first at anything for a number of years, you don't like to be second." Fitzhugh's company is at least still first in another important measure of the industry. It has $130 billion worth of insurance in force, more than Prudential's $121.7 billion and double the total for third place Equitable Life Assurance...
...great losers in the history of U.S. presidential elections, a title he won in 1936 by carrying only two states against F.D.R., Kansas' Alf London, 79, has a rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...
...course, Goldberg is not the kind of public servant who arouses deep feelings about him either way. He repeats his oft-garbled message to the point of tedium in a deep, almost rueful. Midwestern monotone. In an interview during his stay at Harvard, he spent most of a half-hour looking at the floor, occasionally gesturing weakly with his hands. Questions about American policy simply don't excite the U.N. Ambassador -- he just returns the line one expects in those tired, dull, even-paced tones. Never a smile; the same pitch all the time...
Holman quietly insists on doing his own work. Whereupon captain, crew and coolies turn furiously against him. In the last reel, after taking a rueful part in the senseless slaughter of some Chinese peasants, Holman informs the captain that he is through with American militarism, that he is going to desert the colors and help the Chinese build a modern nation. A Chinese bullet prevents the project. "I was home," he gasps as he falls dead. "What the hell happened...
After chugging through a lecture on corporate finance at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., New York Central Railroad President Alfred Perlman, 64, had some rueful observations about the finances of the iron-horse business. "Most people don't like to go somewhere tied down by a train schedule," he said. "This means going by car. It's only when it's snowing that you like to go back to the good old days on trains." Then with a wry smile, he admitted: "I have a pass on the New Haven Railroad, but to get there, I drove...