Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ceremonial visit to the classroom to hand out report cards. The priests always had a roll of bills in their pocket and a big black car to take the kids out for a spin. Sister Joan remembered how the nuns envied the priests their freedom, only in retrospect seeing how they might have misused it. "We didn't have a penny in the pocket of our medieval uniforms, while the priests could throw off their collars and take the kids out for a hamburger and a baseball game...
Dobrow said in retrospect she should have played more video games because it would have helped her with her buzzer finger when buzzing in to questions, which she noted seemed random at times...
...retrospect we realize it wasn’t a wise decision,” Sun said. But Sun, citing the fact that the dance is only a few days away and that the HoCo has limited resources, said there are no plans to revise the dance’s pricing scheme. In fact, Sun said, the HoCo has financial difficulties and was simply hoping to attract first-years by waiving the fee for women...
...chance to either (a) go to class yesterday or (b) stay up all night and wait outside in cold, nasty rain in order to get tickets for Opening Day, I hope you can all understand why I chose the latter over the former. Perhaps a bad decision in retrospect given that Pedro sucked, the Red Sox lost and that word on the street was that Mort Horwitz was en fuego in Warren Court lecture...
...Jane even acknowledges in retrospect that she should have known that Ashley’s friends were reading her diary entries. She says she remembers a suspicious message left in her guest book that read, “Pudgy is watching you.” Pudgy—a recurring reference in Jane’s entries—was her moniker for one of Ashley’s friends...