Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed of a bullet in flight," writes Oberdorfer. The ultimate irony came from the American major who insisted that "it became necessary to destroy this village to save it." As Oberdorfer amply documents, Tet forced a number of commentators and editors (including those of Time Inc.) who had hitherto supported the war to reexamine their commitment...
...series: Florida's former Democratic Senator George Smathers and his old Miami high school buddy, Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, who is also Richard Nixon's best friend. Neither Rebozo nor Smathers is exactly virgin territory for prying reporters, but Newsday nonetheless managed to turn up some hitherto unknown details about them as well as a piquant item about the President. Examples...
...seems too remote to provide a realistic basis for planning. Clearly the need to maintain large military forces will have a profound bearing on the external resources required by Vietnam. Military equipment will be provided directly by the United States as military assistance. This is what has been done hitherto and what is still done in Korea and Taiwan. It is also the way North Vietnam is supplied by China and Russia. The cost that falls on the Vietnamese economy, and is financed through its budget is the pay and subsistence of the forces. This paper is concerned with...
...most of it is successful. And all of it is charged by the virtuoso performance of Cliff Gorman, hitherto best known for his role as the swishiest homosexual in both the stage and film versions of The Boys in the Band. Gorman dominates every scene-belting out the bitter monologues, batting back the foul-mouthed wisecracks, delivering dialects, imitations, sound effects-including a tour de force impersonation of a tape recorder on fast rewind. The first-night audience gave him a well-deserved standing ovation. They may also have been applauding for Bruce, whose time has come-belatedly...
Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...