Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening to the left" solution to Italy's economic problems. On open votes of confidence, Fanfani won dutiful majorities. But on secret ballots, the right-wingers harassed, hamstrung and even outvoted Fanfani so that he never really got a chance to function as Premier. They did so without regret. "Talk about sniping," said one Roman pundit. "Fanfani practically invented...
From the start, the answer was obvious. On his second day, 3,000 Indians swarmed over the University of Delhi campus to see the prince get a D.Sc. They applauded his jokes ("I regret to say that all my degrees are honorary ones"), cheered wildly when he mentioned the last viceroy who so smoothly presided over the transition to independence, "that great friend of India, my uncle Lord Mountbatten." For all its years as a republic,* the land that struggled so hard for independence is still largely dominated by British ways, has not even bothered to take down the portraits...
...Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a "hopeful" indication that many will take advantage of this. "No provision is made for non-Honors Seniors," he reiterated...
...five years beforehand?" In other words, Nasser is stuck with the Russians exclusively at the dam site until 1964, and they can work like beavers if they want to or sulk like turtles. Question: Where does this leave Nasser if the Russians decide to do more than mildly regret his campaign against Arab Communists...
...century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...