Word: hindsighted
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...Marines also came under criticism from the five-man commission, headed red retired Admiral Robert L.J. Long, that investigated the Beirut bombing for the Defense Department. The commission's report "blames a number of people for not exercising what in hindsight would have been better judgment," said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Release of the report was delayed as the White House debated an awkward question: How can the military be held accountable without blaming the Administration for stationing the Marines in Beirut? Courts-martial are unlikely...
...into space, the politicians debate over what Americans would make the best astronaut. Two advisors run through a checklist of daredevils and stuntmen-trapeze artists, hang-gliders, human cannonballs-as the best people to launch into the atmosphere. The implication is that such a person is not-as our hindsight a freak. It is for public relations reasons, not need of certain skills, that Eisenhower finally demands, "I want test pilots...
...shouldn't say anything because I was chair," said Cohen. But he said that he now believes the broad scope of the committee, whose functions include dispensing grants to student groups and the publication of a weekly newsletter, make it too big a job for one person. "In hindsight, it was a good idea," Cohen said...
...camp on the border of national psychosis. Here boredom sinks into despair; high spirits become hysterics; the killer instinct can flare with switchblade speed. Set in 1965, Streamers was written soon after the 1975 fall of Sai gon, and Rabe's dialogue glows with the white heat of hindsight. His four young draftees are doomed from the start, either by their blithe ignorance of the horror to come or by their premonition...
...fair enough assessment, with the benefit of hindsight. But how about this turning point of the game, the key play in the 28-14 Army victory that almost...