Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death, a creeping horror hitherto unknown to medicine...
...Economic Committee. Erhard, as engineer of Germany's postwar prosperity, was clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto vice chairman of the European Coal and Steel Authority at Luxembourg, who is expected to work with Erhard far more cooperatively than Schäffer ever...
With an estimated 5,000,000 Asian flu cases already reported in the U.S., Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service predicted last week that the nation faces new epidemics in the next eight to ten weeks in areas not hitherto stricken. After that, he hoped, "we will be going down hill." So far, with nearly 400 deaths attributed to Asian flu and its complications, the death rate is a minute fraction...
...Shadow Ministry. For Erhard and West Germany, the Korean war was a commercial opportunity. Without the necessity for fast rearmament, West Germany's reviving heavy industries were in a position to move into many foreign markets hitherto the preserves of Britain, France and even the preoccupied Americans. Erhard urged German firms to send their salesmen hotfooting after their old South American markets. Orders poured back into Germany, but in the wild scramble for raw materials, domestic prices rose alarmingly...
...Freud's credit he lays much of the greater tolerance now shown by laymen toward severe mental illness and more humane ways of treating it. In psychology itself, Jones holds, Freud's investigative method compares in importance with the discovery of the microscope-"in both cases a hitherto invisible world was revealed...