Word: hitherto
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Paradoxically, their apparent unity of aim may lead to difficulties and frustrations, if only because Luciani no longer exists as a candidate. He was a compromise, to be sure, but a happy one, whose graces and goodness had hitherto shone only in a small corner of a great church. Asks Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang of Taipei with evident skepticism: "Will it be possible to find a man with the same qualities?" Though Luciani once described himself as a "wren" among bishops, his papacy revealed him as a rather rarer bird. His reputation for doctrinal conservatism made him acceptable to the traditionalists...
...recently formed cadre of zealous upper-case runners. True Runners, these. They imagine that their activity sets them apart from and generally above the rest of humanity. Many come forth sounding as though they have been Zenned and Esalened and Rolfed and Primal Screamed into a state of exaltation hitherto achieved only by beings who talk to birds or turn miscreant wives into salt...
...Bible published in 1716 admittedly appealed to a very select audience-primarily theologians. Only 500 copies were run off, and the last did not sell until 1907, a patient 191 years later. Then there was Muller's Certain Variations in the Vocal Organs of the Passeres that have Hitherto Escaped Notice, which Charles Darwin persuaded the press to print in 1878. Fortunately, Darwin was not a publishing executive. In 25 years only 21 volumes were sold...
...average for all industries. The miners, on the other hand, regard such strikes as their only way of settling grievances against local mine operators. The miners were nearly as outraged by a provision compelling them to contribute up to $650 a year for family medical expenses, which have hitherto been paid by the companies...
Meagher's momentum-turning move did not go unrewarded though, as moments later, Mullen got his hat trick, when the hitherto unheralded B.U. forward polished off rebounds from Bill LeBlond and Miller to make it 4-1 after two. Give an assist on that one to the non-clearing efforts of the Harvard defense...