Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...houses usually are informed by a sneaking delight at the ability to talk about condoms and sex under the guise of serious conversation. (Admit it. Condoms are funny.) This is perhaps the only positive aspect of AIDS, that it has encouraged more open and free discussion of such hitherto hushed-up matters as homosexuality...
Mike, 9, the black-and-white border collie who upstaged the hitherto un- upstageable Bette Midler in last year's Down and Out in Beverly Hills and who is busy making commercials and considering film projects...
...During a diplomatic visit to the United States cracks appear in the hitherto flawless facade of the Royal Marriage. At a state dinner in Washington, Di dances with only two men: Clint Eastwood and John Travolta. Concerning the latter, the princess revealed that she had wanted to dance with him ever since seeing Saturday Night Fever. Rumors begin to spread that her husband, the future king, is unable to "do the hustle...
...Morris Albert's Feelings isn't really Morris Albert's Feelings at all. No, the treacly pop song that sold more than a million records in 1975 is really a rewrite of Pour Toi, a hitherto obscure French cafe tune composed nearly 20 years earlier by one Louis Gaste. That, at least, is what a nonmusical federal-court jury in Manhattan decided last July, awarding Gaste a settlement of at least half a million dollars. Gaste pronounced himself vindicated. Albert's feelings were unknown...
...clearly folly for Biden to expropriate Kinnock's family tree as he conjured up coal-mining ancestors "who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse." But hitherto, politics has been far more tolerant of borrowings from Bartlett's than of monkey business in Bimini. In fact, some of the most famous lines of modern oratory have questionable paternity. Winston Churchill's "blood, toil, tears and sweat" was inspired by John Donne; John Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" echoed Oliver Wendell Holmes; and Ronald Reagan's 1980 debate...