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...time of the coup, some foreign observers were astonished that young officers had led the revolt, since the military was widely regarded as a key prop of the Salazar and Caetano regimes. In retrospect, there should have been no surprise. Many of those officers had come from poor families that could not afford to send them to the universities. For them, therefore, entering a military academy and receiving a regular officer's commission were the only means of obtaining an education and advancing in social status. Gradually, they saw their positions and careers threatened when in 1973 the government...
...hard to know what to make of the atomic bomb now. At the time was shocking for its power--more than 2000 tons of TNT, President truman told the world--but in retrospect, more people were killed in other bombings. It must have seemed then that every war would be conducted with atomic force, so that avoiding war was a necessity in the future--but there have been other wars, they have not used the bomb, and the world has survived. Perhaps it also seemed exciting that Americans had learned to harness the universe's elemental forces, something that...
...retrospect, Veterinary Dr. William O. Reed, who runs the hospital, remarked, "I would have preferred to have been able to wait a day or so prior to surgery simply because the filly's condition was anything but stable." But most believed that the contamination in Ruffian's dirt-filled wound required an immediate operation. Once Ruffian was trucked to the equine hospital behind the Belmont track, Dr. Reed removed bone chips, repaired some of the ripped ligaments, flushed the wound with antibiotics and saline solutions and inserted drains. Then Dr. Edward C. Keefer, an orthopedist...
...game of words and that moral judgments are only opinions. In an odd and coincidental alliance, pop culture and recent radical theory gave us a kind of debased romanticism, glorifying feeling over thought, will or desire over reflection, violence over politics, and instant satisfaction over anything else. In retrospect, those famous slogans of the '60s, "Freedom now!" and "Nonnegotiable demands," are appalling not for their goals but for their irrationality...
...modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that the Americans...