Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence found in Posada's home and office, Bosch told police that CORU had ordered two of its U.S.-based agents to carry out the Letelier "hit." The Venezuelans also found that Bosch and other CORU agents were behind many, if not most, of this year's hitherto mysterious anti-Castro bombings around the Caribbean...
This brand of positive thinking, plus a catchy title and heavy promotion, is making Dyer wealthy. Your Erroneous Zones has sold 150,000 copies in six months and is now No. 2 on TIME'S bestseller list. A balding, hitherto little-known professor at St. John's University in New York, Dyer, 36, says he practices what he preaches about emotional control. When he underwent oral surgery without an anesthetic, he felt no pain. He chose to feel pleasure by fantasizing erotic images and recalling positive things in his life...
...charges of incompetence and other costly mistakes, most of which University officials either denied or declined comment on earlier this month, have been made by one of the two relatively unknown employees, Michael W. Brown-Beasley, in his hitherto unsuccessful attempt to overturn his August 4 dismissal for insubordination as assistant to the director of the Office of Fiscal Services...
...hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable, it singes places hitherto impossible to reach, and it is absolutely safe, as long as you always point the torch away from the skin...
...them single stranded. These had to be paired to form double-stranded DNA segments that had to be connected end to end in proper sequence to duplicate the bacterial gene. In the course of their work, Khorana and his colleagues built not only the basic gene but the hitherto elusive start and stop signals at either end. When the synthetic gene was inserted into an E. coli cell with the help of a carrier virus known as a bacteriophage, it performed perfectly...