Word: hindsighted
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...first lands him in the Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus...
...Hindsight. Not only was the epitaph pronounced but a postmortem was written by the Army and Navy Journal...
...enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories of a 1921 visit...
...Major Eliot's hindsight conclusions were three-quarters correct the people of the U.S., with those of Britain and Russia, had good cause to feel exuberant. Leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had not failed them. Especially, Franklin Roosevelt had not failed the people...
...March and April. For Nelson agreed with Henderson on a vital point, the quotation appearing under Henderson's TIME cover picture May 12: "By God, we should have learned a few things from the last war!" The two, more than any other two defense managers, had both hindsight & foresight, more nearly comprehended the problem's gigantic whole...