Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking over the bank, in which the Government had hitherto held only a part interest, Peron obtained for the state "its sovereign right to issue money," and what was more immediately important, the right to borrow enough money to finance his huge military program. Argentina's military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost...
Over Yenan, which had hitherto loudly denied any official contact with Moscow, circled Soviet transport planes. To the capital of China's Communists they brought cargoes of medical supplies, two Russian doctors and a tall, youthful Chinese, Mao Yung-fo, second son of Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...
...watchdog Council may be psychological. In that case they will serve as an extension of the same role U.S. criticism has already played: keeping MacArthur on his toes. The Commission will sit permanently in Washington, and its policy directives will presumably be as broad as those which MacArthur has hitherto received...
Last week they caught a hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...