Word: retrospective
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...will become the prudent years, and the prudent years will continue throughout life. That's how it used to be, in the 19th century, and that's how it will be again in the 21st. The age of James Dean, the Ford Mustang and making out will seem, in retrospect, like what it was: a summer vacation from larger human history...
...Clearly, he's a person who, in retrospect, we would not have wanted in the House," Ware said...
...medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded. It was (and is) the custom in Greenwich for off-duty policemen to work as bodyguards or chauffeurs for wealthy residents. "In retrospect, we probably treated the Skakels differently," a cop later admitted to author Timothy Dumas. "We did a little soft shoe, proceeded cautiously so as not to offend anyone...
...foot up through his leg - a difficult shot to make when a victim is standing. The officers, who have all pleaded innocent to the murder charge, claim the 22-year-old Guinean immigrant matched the description of a serial rapist and appeared to be pulling a gun. In retrospect, both perceptions were faulty; Diallo was unarmed...
...retrospect, it would have been smarter to have Kennedy mail in his endorsement. A Kennedy fills a room, not just casting a shadow but creating a total eclipse. At the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester, Mass., Kennedy packed the hall with labor leaders, party loyalists and other wildlife, then delivered a fire-and-brimstone endorsement speech that brought them leaping to their feet. Off his diet and about to bust every stitch of his too small blue suit, he was a great, sweaty, painted pumpkin, with a voice that raised the roof...