Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demobilization, for "failing to recognize the true aims and methods" of Soviet Russia, for giving the Kremlin "a green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa." Snapped Democrat Tom Connally: "A document of complaint and quarrelsomeness." Added Connecticut's Brien McMahon: "These masters of hindsight seek to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divorce themselves from our defeats . . . The record shows that more than one-half of the Republican party has vigorously opposed ... the Greek-Turkish, EGA and Atlantic Pact policies...
Premature Burial. The entire bull market had grown with the help of the same kind of hindsight. Born early in 1948, it was knocked to its knees by fears of war, the Truman election, the business recession and dozens of other minor frights. By June 1949, when the Dow-Jones industrial average had skidded from 193.16 to 161.60, some market experts officially hung a crepe on the bull. But others insisted that stocks were dirt cheap. Enough investors took their advice to start the market moving upward, even though industrial production was still going down...
...With hindsight it is plain to modern scientists that classical physics was dodging issues. It had nothing to say about X rays (discovered by Röntgen in 1895) or about radioactivity (Becquerel, 1896). Yet these were no small shadow patches. They were signposts pointing to a new world of knowledge...