Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Siegel fleshes out this lean plot by taking a long look at low life in Fun City. Using discotheques, squad rooms and pool halls, he creates a tense atmosphere of violence that encloses the action like a straitjacket. Eastwood, who has hitherto displayed nothing more than a capacity for iron-jawed belligerency in a series of Italian-made westerns, performs with a measure of real feeling in the first role that fits him as comfortably as his tooled leather boots...
Florida and Arizona for seats hitherto held by Democrats...
Doctors were proud when they devised ways of using magnets to extract iron and steel objects from patients-usually nails and safety pins from children's gullets or stomachs. Now they are carrying the idea much farther by inserting magnets to get at hitherto inaccessible parts of the human body...
Like many variety shows, Laugh-In features new talent-except that the talent is deliberately askew: a virtuoso on the kazoo, a birdcall impressionist, or an all-thumbs juggler. It was in one such segment, for example, that the show inflicted on a helpless nation that hitherto unknown dingaling, Tiny...
Still, a few weak spots have appeared. Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell...