Word: hindsighted
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...paragraphs of interpretation. The tone is not so unfriendly to MacArthur as some of his other critical have been, but the authors have nearly undercut any claims the general may make to consistency, and have beaten down many of his most pronounced opinions with the bludgeon of hindsight...
...speeches of the 1949 conference were purportedly off the record, but, said Fairbank, "Stassen apparently took it upon himself to set the country straight. A bit too much hindsight, perhaps, at this point...
...nothing but steak and ride in enormous cars. Of course, that's nonsense." Then he went to work to plug his new book, Don Iddon's America (Falcon Press, London; 125, 6d), a collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit is getting more widespread [in Hollywood]. Actors and actresses take them...
...Error of the fatal flaw," my foot! And I fain would use it (the foot) to kick the gobbledygook-talking diplomats in their hindsight. Only Lattimoronic "experts" could have failed to foresee the calamity that was bound to result from letting the Mao mob become the rulers of China...
...hindsight-"Churchill had tried to get me not to withdraw our troops from Prague. I told him we were bound to do that by our agreements with the Russians. But if I had known then what I know now, I would have ordered the troops to go to the western boundaries of Russia...