Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely that it will be in the foreseeable future. After all, oil income has more than tripled Libya's per-capita annual income in the past five years, and much of the money has been spent or earmarked for housing, hospitals, schools and public utilities hitherto unknown in the Libyan desert economy...
...they found it would multiply only in a medium containing living heart muscle itself. When the crop was injected into mice, the animals died in much the same way as heart-failure patients. What can the particles be? The investigators can only speculate that they may be a hitherto unknown form of life, with some of the properties of protozoa (such as malaria parasites) and some properties of viruses. If they are right, they may be on the track of other unexplained diseases...
...Dong, whom some observers regard as le patron-the real boss-of the war effort. According to Salisbury, Pham emphasized that his oft-reiterated "four points"* for settlement of the war were not meant as prior "conditions" for peace talks but as a "basis of settlement." Since Hanoi had hitherto insisted that the U.S. had to accept these terms before talks could begin, the apparent shift in emphasis stirred a flurry of speculation. Was Pham softening his position and saying that the four points were merely proposals that Hanoi would toss on the negotiating table? Well, not exactly. Pham, said...
...future, but for himself." The New Deal's new direction appalled Moley. "Roosevelt substantially reversed the policies of the Democratic Party. The old Democratic affirmation of the constitutional integrity of state and local authority was abandoned. The Federal Government intervened, first slowly but later massively in areas hitherto reserved to the states and the communities. I could not remain a Democrat when the nature and objectives of that party had so completely departed from its earlier faith...
Either way it ruled, the court was bound to set a precedent. If it did nothing, legislatures would have a green light to keep out or effectively inhibit all dissenters. Yet if it overruled the Georgia house, it would move the judiciary -if only tentatively -into a hitherto sacrosanct area of legislative prerogative. No court, either federal or state, had ever before overruled the right of a legislature to judge the qualifications of its own members. The Bond case involved such a clear-cut violation of freedom of speech, however, that the precedent set by the court may have only...