Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that year, methodically demolishing most opponents by 40 or 50 points in dull games. One sportswriter wrote that it was not the talent of any one or two or ten individuals that made NPHS the scourge of Philadelphia and Delaware so much as it was the inspired comradery. In retrospect, talent probably had a lot more to do with it, but at the time, the belief in the transcendent spirit of the team over a nine-game season was a comfortable notion...
...made any easier by a conflicting stream of lies flowing from high level cesspools. Nixon's speech announcing the invasion of Cambodia in May 1970, the one where he fooled around with the maps as if he were commanding the German General Staff, now appears expecially ironic in retrospect. He told the television audience that America had scrupulously respected Cambodia's neutrality until that date. As he spoke, warplanes thundered into the country on raids that had been conducted for almost a year...
...RETROSPECT, the prospects for any resurgence in radical activity this Spring were dashed last January when the Vietnam peace agreements were signed and one phase of the decade-long American involvement in Indochina shuddered to an end. Opposition to the genocide in Vietnam coupled with varying degrees of support for the National Liberation Front has been the issue that has unified radicals and left-liberals at Harvard and shaped the character of protest here for the past six years. The war is not over by any means, but its searing vividness has been dimmed enough to sever most left-liberals...
...refused the job. He did not want to have to evade questions "from my friends or the press about my activities," Sharp said last week. "I was not about to participate in any activity as indefinite as to goals and responsibility as this seemed to be." He added: "In retrospect, I made a wise choice...
...President's overall policy of détente enjoys wide bipartisan support. But there is considerable disenchantment, particularly in the Midwest, over the Administration's handling of last year's $1 billion wheat sale to the Russians. Though widely approved at the time, the sale in retrospect appears to have been a disastrous example of official mismanagement and blundering-subsidized by $300 million in taxpayers' money and a major factor in spiraling prices...