Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock was imposed on the culture, and its days were numbered...
...That we do neither is as remarkable in its way as the Tylenol poisoning itself. The poisoning is, to put it mildly, an aspect of extreme behavior. One might think that its antidote would also consist of extreme behavior. But instead, all the public does in response to this hitherto unseen monster is to rely on several old, familiar investigative mechanisms: the testimony of experts, the advice of the Food and Drug Administration, the news reports and, of course, its own capacity to make sense of these things...
...teams--I just figured that Harvard ought to have one too." A friend gave Smith a book about Harvard Clubs in the 19th century and he discovered that Harvard had had a University Cycling Association as 'early as 1890, dedicated "to the intention of broadening the sport into areas hitherto unattained...
...hope that Duarte's centrist coalition will consolidate its power in El Salvador's elections, carry on efforts at domestic reform and eventually bring responsible left-wing elements into the political mainstream. The Administration is now simply more willing to talk about talking-and to use the hitherto forbidden word negotiation-although at week's end the State Department was discomfited by what it called Mexico's "premature" announcement of a U.S.-Nicaraguan parley in April. For that matter, there is no evidence yet that the postures of flexibility struck by Cuba and Nicaragua last week...
...slide presentation did provide unmistakable evidence of a military buildup that Nicaragua's leaders have hitherto minimized. Nonetheless, Sandinista leaders were quick to dispute many of the charges. "There is not a single foreign soldier in Nicaragua," insisted Sergio Ramirez, a member of the country's three-man ruling junta. "How could we hide 2,000 Cuban soldiers in a country this size?" Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock, who was in the U.S. for his own publicity offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually...