Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers aboard Lufthansa Flight 649 from New Delhi to Athens had just settled down to watch the latest James Bond flick, Diamonds Are Forever, when they were suddenly launched into a real-life thriller. Five Arabs, waving pistols and grenades, commandeered the 747 in the name of a hitherto unknown Palestinian guerrilla group called the "Organization of Victims of Zionist Occupation...
...stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
...tactics of the army's more militant Provisionals. But the Provisionals, as it happens, were also busy. Two days after Barnhill's death, seven raids were made on the homes of wealthy Protestants-most of them magistrates or city councilors-in Belfast's Malone Road district, hitherto untouched by terrorism. Two houses were wrecked by bombs, the husband of Edith Taggart, Ulster's only woman Senator, was struck with a pistol butt, the wife of a city councilor was slightly wounded by gunshot, and a reserve army sergeant was shot critically in the chest and neck...
...organized informal classes in karate. The result, according to one Berkeley woman, is that "men here are a little less likely now to try something with a woman." Fifteen members of the Women's Activist Movement at Wisconsin last week marched into the university's "red gym," hitherto reserved exclusively for men, and demanded the right to use the basketball courts and the showers. So far, they have been allowed to play but not wash...
...busing can also involve large areas and substantial numbers of students. In such Southern cities as Nashville, Tenn., and Winston-Salem, N.C., compliance with court orders to integrate has been achieved primarily by busing hundreds of blacks to hitherto all-white schools. But courts are increasingly insisting that cities desegregate their schools by more democratic two-way busing, even in major cities where logistics are complicated. Few have moved farther or faster than Mobile, Ala., which for years fought desegregation hard, appealing federal court orders no fewer than eleven times. At the time of the Supreme Court order upholding busing...