Word: hitherto
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Caro spent six years interviewing everyone he could find who had known Moses well, who had served under him, or who had had his career destroyed by him. Caro waded through forty years of Moses's press releases and examined the hitherto closed books of Moses's Port of New York Authority. The Power Broker is a 1200-page monstrosity that is a mirror of its subject--oversized, uncompromising, and ruthlessly partisan...
...Judiciary Committee volume disclosed details of that hitherto secret IRS audit for the first time. In general, they paralleled the findings of the Joint Congressional Committee. One new area of tax underpayment was disclosed...
...toads have hitherto been confined to Queensland, in northeastern Australia, because dry areas adjoining the state hamper them from moving out to neighboring territory. But last month they turned up in two other places in Australia and promptly set off an all out toad hunt. When 18 Bufos escaped from a consignment to a biology teacher at steamy Darwin, in the Northern Territory, it was immediately clear that not all Australians regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member...
...there are some further and all too familiar reasons why leadership has lost much of its psychological accreditation: the assassinations of the 1960s which introduced an unprecedented measure of terror into American politics; the era of riot and protest, offering glimpses of a hitherto unthinkable challenge to the entire social system; the Viet Nam War?a deeply confusing experience to a people schooled in the justice of its wars and the infallibility of its technology. In that strange enterprise, conventional American leadership failed badly and at great expense ?or so the outcome of the war was widely perceived...
Moral Squalor. What appalled Congress was not so much the evidence of particular crimes as the moral squalor revealed in the transcripts. "This is the most nauseating thing I have ever read," declared a hitherto 100% Nixon loyalist, Louis Wyman of New Hampshire, who is not given to overstatement. Said Republican John Ashbrook, a conservative Representative from Ohio: "I listened to the President on television last Monday night, and for the first time in a year I believed him. Then I read the March 21 [1973] transcript, and it was incredible, unbelievable." Complained Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte about...