Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easiest route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard but to the common sense of some of his brigade commanders, who heard heavy firing and decided to take their men toward it. "What seemed in retrospect a marvel of distant control by Beauregard was, in reality, the work of Colonel [Philip St. George] Cocke"-one of the richest planters in Virginia...
...revealed their thoughts to their peoples, and all was optimism, the glowing promise of a second front, the growing power of the United Nations. But the musical accompaniment of their duet was a bombardment of bad news, some of the worst news since the fall of France. In historical retrospect their third war meeting was now destined to make them out either a pair of zanies who did not know what time of day it was, or a pair of courageous statesmen with confidence in their own acute judgment...
MURDER IN RETROSPECT-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime. An exciting exercise in high-&-low deducing...
...retrospect, the job he had tried to do seemed fantastic. To maintain the basic U.S. position, he had to insist that Japan get out of China and stay out of the East Indies, but he had no big stick. The Army & Navy wanted soft talk, to give them more time. So did the British, the Dutch. Mr. Hull could not explain to the U.S. public that oil and scrap iron shipped to Japan were not meant to purchase peace but to buy time. His position was made torture by public clamor for a "strong stand" and by Chinese pressure...
Last week, as Benito Mussolini addressed his obediently enthusiastic Chamber of Fasces and Corporations in Rome, the people of Italy herded around their radios had every reason to be slightly giddy. For Italy's most ruinous year had become, in dizzy oratorical retrospect, a vista of conquest...