Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retrospect I see again my Superior calling me and saying: "Go with the mule cart to the village of X, where the missionary is ill." Before daybreak we start, a Chinese priest and a sick pupil from the school of the sisters...
...Winant wrote Letter from Grosvenor Square to counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed that...
...after seriously considering coming to Harvard, he entered Brown University in Providence. In 1941 and '42 he played varsity football. During those years, the newspapers of the United States began booming the name of Hank Margarita. "I wish had come here instead," says Dick Harlow, in retrospect. "He never beat us, but for two years he certainly scared hell...
Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan are a wooden and rather uninteresting pair of principals, and as a minor villain Peter Lorre plays another in a long line of roles which, in retrospect, seem all about the same. As chief heavy, a newcomer named Steve Cochran does little but scowl menacingly, in a picture wherein action moves at the pace of a snail and suspense is kept down to a minimum...
F.D.R. In Retrospect. Tugwell had once been among Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, yet even when war came, the President left him sidetracked in Puerto Rico. One of the most interesting passages in The Stricken Land is Tugwell's attempt to balance his enthusiasm for F.D.R. with his marked reservations. Writes Tugwell: "It was not because he was a great mai, nor because he was always right, that I loved him. I perhaps more than others had always been critical of his methods and even his results. . . . Like other men, looked at critically, he was not infallible...