Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire he drew attentive crowds. But he was abrupt and cold in greeting local leaders, brushed off autograph hunters and handshakers, cut short or sidestepped questioners. He charged that nobody knows what Dwight Eisenhower stands for, inquired slyly whether Ike would dare to attack the Truman Administration. In retrospect, some of Taft's own organization men granted that he offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were a mistake in another way: they...
...retrospect, the old Common is one of the best examples of the cyclical theory of history. It is unfortunate however that destiny has never allowed the Common to become more than a dust-bowl. One writer of local history has suggested that the next monument be "not of marble or bronze but good, stubborn grass seed...
...social recluse, Lowry lives 14 miles outside Manchester, makes solitary pilgrimages to town every day by bus. He rambles, waiting for a scene to catch his eye, then takes a bus back home in time for tea. After tea, he starts to paint. Says Lowry in 35-year retrospect: "My whole happiness and unhappiness were that my view was like nobody else's. Had it been like, I should not have been lonely; but had I not been lonely, I should not have seen what...
...hoax-in retrospect, guilty only of being 75 years premature*-leads off this easygoing anthology of flying life and lore. Editor Jensen, a World War II fighter pilot, has rummaged high & low for a collection which should leave flying buffs cooing happily and give even the uninitiated an occasional kick...
Predictions of an early peace flew thick & fast last week. They seemed to be based, not on a change of attitude by the Communists, but on a change of course by the U.N. In retrospect, Matt Ridgway's generals and admirals seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that only "inexorable military pressure" would drive the Reds to make peace. They had tied themselves in knots trying to avoid giving the enemy what they scathingly called a "de facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire...