And one of the main-course vegetables was a gratin containing a hitherto secret Eastern Shore ingredient.

When did your hitherto secret love affair with the ballet begin?

In the vicinity of St. Moritz they discovered the hitherto secret orders and ceased to cooperate.

After a 10-year silence, Farber has finally come forward to publish 300 pages of their hitherto secret correspondence.

Most: More delicious scandals in which the hitherto secret wrongdoings of senior politicians, media moguls and business leaders are exposed.

These same programs also allow American scientists into Russia's and China's hitherto secret weapons facilities.

"We didn't get the straight story," Mr. Fitzgerald said, explaining his hitherto secret investigation and sometimes inscrutable moves.

The grandson of one president and the great-grandson of another, Adams gained access to hitherto secret archives in Europe.

Then he departed, with a fleet of vessels manned by hand-picked crews, to a long-prepared and hitherto secret retreat.

Disclosures in hitherto secret papers released at the National Archives under the 30-year rule are extraordinarily pertinent now.