Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every country. German industrialists, cockily confident of their ability to outcompete anyone in Europe, were enthusiastic at the opportunity to win an even bigger share of Western European markets, but unenthusiastic at the prospect of being obliged to give French-style benefits-including three-week vacations-to their hitherto unpampered employees. The labor benefits, in turn, have great appeal to German unions, thereby vitiating German Socialism's traditional opposition to European integration schemes...
...This hitherto unsuspected Jewish art may in turn have influenced the Christians of the catacombs. Except for representations of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, most of the earliest catacomb wall paintings illustrate scenes from the Old rather than the New Testament-scenes that may first have been rendered in the Dura synagogue's murals...
...Quarles), and at the same time increasing the present MATS aircraft strength from 534 to 717. New planes will come from the Navy (67) and three heavy troop-carrier wings (some 100 Globemaster null from the Air Force's Tactical Air Command. Thus MATS, whose M-day job hitherto was designed to support TAC and other airlift facilities, will now have the capacity to drop troops directly on target, as well as the job of performing peacetime transport duties...
...assets of $2.6 billion ($1 billion below U.S. Steel) could actually increase steel-industry competition. For the first time there would be a real rival for U.S. Steel, the undisputed monolith (first in capacity in ten of twelve major steel-producing categories) whose wage and price decisions have hitherto set the industry pattern...
...smoke-filled basement room in Warsaw's Polytechnic Institute last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on the road to democratization without risking a Soviet crackdown? Can the Polish Communist Party slow down the momentum of Poland's drive for complete national independence? The answers could also spell out the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and a formidable reduction of Soviet power itself...