Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narration of one of the wives. Theirs is an unambitious rural retreat in which "it was impossible to believe that somewhere else the unpleasantness was going on." The troubles of Ireland are at a safe distance until one of their own number. Cynthia (whose husband the narrator sleeps with) hitherto considered to be rather weak and characterless--stuns them all with a vicious, almost raving outburst of pent-up emotions. A superbly crafted, extended passage has Cynthia confront her companions with the facts about themselves and a manic account of the viciousness, violence and pervasive sickness of the Irish conflict...
Apple Computer (1983 sales: $982.8 million) reported last week that its fourth-quarter profits fell 73%, to $5.1 million, compared with last year's earnings results. The plunge forced Apple, hitherto one of the most prosperous firms in California's Silicon Valley, to suspend payment to its employee profit-sharing plan for the first time since the company went public in December 1980. A day after Apple's announcement, Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp. (1982 sales: $3.8 billion) announced that its profits were off 72% during its most recently ended quarter. Digital's stock lost...
That, apparently, was too much for hitherto silent Keays. In a surprise statement in Friday's London Times, she gave her side of the story and abruptly demolished what remained of Parkinson's political career. "My baby was conceived in a longstanding, loving relationship which I had allowed to continue because I believed in our eventual marriage," Keays declared. "It has been suggested that Mr. Parkinson only asked me to marry him after I became pregnant, when in fact he first did so in 1979. In May, when I knew of my pregnancy, Mr. Parkinson decided...
...broken, and reputations were made by such athletes as Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn had unfairly tried to stop...
...success of such a doctrine relies ultimately though on Muslims outside the Soviet Union Primakov's notion of progressive Islam permits the Soviets to justify support of religious revolutionaries, hitherto unrecognized and unrecognizable by the USSR. This view of Islams, though can not ensure that Muslim activists will trust the Soviets, nor that they will turn to the USSR for aid. Muslim non-Marxists have long been suspicious of the Soviets, so Moscow must create are receptive Muslim audience abroad before progressive Islam may provide an effective strategy for Soviet infiltration of the Middle East Presumably, then, the next task...