Word: regretable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflected longstanding U.S. policy, Vance's words were a bit blunter than usual, and they made Begin see red. Summoning reporters, the Premier read what was surely the toughest official Israeli blast at Washington since Golda Meir rejected the Rogers peace plan eight years ago. The statement expressed "regret and protest" about the Vance remark, insisted that the settlements were "legal, legitimate and essential," and even suggested that Vance's views on the matter did not square with those of his boss. President Carter defended his Secretary of State the next day in a firm statement read...
...that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life...
...Harvard ever plays like that again, and I'm not there to see it, you know I'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of my life...
...Some Arabs want me to say I regret my Jerusalem mission. No, I don't regret it. Let's hope that with Carter we can discuss giving momentum again in the spirit of my mission...
...stories continued, the British Foreign Office issued a statement saying, "We share the regret already widely expressed that such a tragedy should have occurred." This in turn outraged the Saudi Arabian government, which launched a formal protest. British Foreign Secretary David Owen apologized to the Saudi royal family for the Foreign Office statement. That caused Labor M.P. Martin Flannery to introduce a motion in the House of Commons damning Owen's apology as "groveling, humiliating and shameful." The Daily Mail accused Owen of truckling to Saudi oil interests: "So down on your knees, Dr. Owen, before they cut off supplies...