Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceiling. Occasionally he swung to his feet to give a curt, evasive answer. After an hour and 40 minutes, Speaker William Morrison recessed the debate. The Labor Party went into caucus, its members in the grip of violent anger at Eden-a man whom in international affairs they had hitherto trusted. "Comrades," declared Hugh Gaitskell, "we must attack the operation with all the strength...
They are most encouraged by his last two major speeches, speeches in which he leveled his fire upon President Eisenhower, and had the crowd so completely with him that it booed the President, a hitherto unknown reaction...
...delegation from the Hungarian Communist Party, led by Erno Gero himself, prepared to pay court to Belgrade. A delegation from the Italian party, the most powerful outside the Iron Curtain, was already on Tito's doorstep. Rumania was sending a delegation, and also the French Communist Party, hitherto cool towards the Yugoslavs. Pravda reported that differences between the Yugoslav and Soviet Communist Parties had "considerably lessened" and were "continuing to diminish...
Without disclosing the strength of China's armed forces, Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai announced that there were 2,700,000 fewer men under arms than in 1949. As a sop to the self-respect of the hitherto terrorized Chinese intellectuals, the leaders decreed that a party member, while obliged to carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified...
...light of Ike's timidity, the statements made recently by Stevenson (hitherto considered the clever and cautious politician) seem especially startling. Last spring the CRIMSON sharply criticized Stevenson for shilly-shallying--his moderation seemed to have only political motives. But his attitudes this fall indicate that moderation, with him, is a matter of principle, for his stand is firm. The first indication of this was in his judgment on the most recent incidents which he termed "a disgrace to Democrats, a disgrace to Republicans, and a disgrace to the nation." But his latest statement at Little Rock carried his firmness...