Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berckemeyer, onetime (1920-23) Notre Dame student, is one of the few who never need a specific national reason for partying, once gave a soiree for British Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, whose connections with Peru had hitherto been obscure. Last weekend Berckemeyer did it again: an after-theater supper for British Actor Sir John Gielgud. French embassy parties, while never very big, are among the most enjoyable, are distinguished by the beauty of Ambassador Hervé Alphand's second wife (he was divorced, remarried last summer) and the ambassador's after-dinner impersonations of Winston Churchill and France...
Some Arab leaders have at last begun to see that the Communists, hitherto almost indistinguishable in the common outcry against the West, had never in fact accepted Arab unity under Nasser as a sufficient anti-Western end in itself. All the time, the Reds had been infiltrating and sabotaging the movement, and biding their time to seize power for themselves...
...board of tutors; enrollment began to build up in the Twenties and by 1929 there were six tutors and 60 to 70 students. The Depression brought about severe budget limitations, and History and Lit was unable to hire additional tutors. As a result, concentration in the field, hitherto unrestricted, was limited to 50 Harvard and 15 Radcliffe students...
...this tidal wave, many a figure from the past was swept away. The Socialists, hitherto France's biggest non-Communist party, lost a staggering 55 seats (from 95 down to 40). Among defeated Socialists were ex-Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
California: Liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, hitherto a favorite of California Democrats, paid the price for a hopelessly crippled G.O.P. campaign, lost to conservative Democratic Congressman Clair Engle...