Word: retrospectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife: "Be careful how you tell her." He died eight days later, whispering to his wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith; his kindly, frock-coated dignity; his accessibility and dedication to the people: the federal simplicity that would not be seen again in Washington." A popular ballad put it this...
...closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed Project Vanguard. In retrospect, it was no wonder that the U.S.S.R. got into space first...
...retrospect it seems unbelievable that such an election took nearly four days to achieve. Part of the difficulty was physical--the widely separated quarters of the men and women, the Communists' refusal to provide a meeting place, the scheduling of intriguing cultural events all day, and more, subtly, the invitations to all-night parties. Communication of meeting times and places (even when those were finally settled) was nearly impossible, and the direct action of goon squads made it no easier. At West Station, for example, a teaching fellow in anthropology, Karl Heider, was roughed up for carrying an information sign...
Edwards: In retrospect, I think you're going to be happy as your life goes...
...Eisenhower made the recommendation even stronger in his report to his brother after a swing through Central America in mid-1958. "We have made some honest mistakes with dictators," said Milton. "For example, we decorated several of them. Whatever reason impelled us to take those actions, I think, in retrospect, we were wrong...