Word: hitherto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stands at the front of the second rank. "Thuy is a thoroughgoing professional," concedes a U.S. diplomat. "He knows what he's doing, even if he is only doing what he has been told." As Foreign Minister from 1963 until his removal two years later for undisclosed-and hitherto unnoticed-"health reasons," Thuy mouthed Hanoi's message, glad-handed visitors, and facelessly executed orders from above. He was replaced by Nguyen Duy Trinh, a pro-Peking hardliner. Although favoring Moscow, Thuy nimbly sidestepped the Sino-Soviet dispute: he was a founding member of Hanoi's friendship organizations...
...were remaining loyal to Lyndon, and then some. Humphrey backers claimed to be rolling up commitments of support in several Western states. Enough big campaign contributors are available to spare him the financial hang-ups he suffered during his 1960 bid for the nomination. County conventions in Minnesota, hitherto believed safe territory for McCarthy, chose enough Humphrey-leaning representatives to the June state convention to assure the Vice President of a large majority of the state's 52 delegate votes in August. The executive board of the 450,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, based in Kennedy...
...Ironically, L.B.J.'s withdrawal will hasten the peace he has so earnestly sought-the peace that his antagonists abroad have hitherto denied him and his detractors at home doubted he truly sought. Ironically, too, this greatest sacrifice by an American President was made by the President considered most consummately political...
London's gold market, hitherto responsible for 80% of the world's gold trading, reopened after a two-week shutdown aimed at stifling the gold-buying stampede that threatened the dollar. Now the question was whether the free-market price of the metal, no longer supported by the disbanded seven-nation gold pool, would climb so far above its $35-per-oz. official monetary level as to rekindle speculative frenzies...
...even after he be came Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare three years ago, he remained a back-room man. Now, as President Johnson's nominee to replace John Gardner as Secretary, Cohen, 54, will be the chief proponent and defender of the programs he has hitherto assembled in obscurity...