The disaster gave Republicans a stick with which to beat the Truman administration, while the perjury of Alger Hiss (a high-ranking State Department officer, president of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, and erstwhile Communist agent) lent credence to charges that Communist sympathizers were at work in Washington.
In one of the most dramatic scenes of all in Northern Ireland's history, in May of 2007 at Stormont, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness stood alongside the DUP's Ian Paisley, as Deputy and First Ministers respectively (and erstwhile, sworn enemies), and declared that the peace work in Ireland had "confounded the critics and astounded the skeptics".
Peter Hain, the secretary for Northern Ireland, hopes that in early October the International Monitoring Commission, which keeps tabs on IRA weapons and activities, will report that the erstwhile hitmen have continued, broadly, to keep the peace and will provide more detail to prove it.
Egypt's erstwhile president, Hosni Mubarak, often told the Palestinians publicly "to avoid endangering the peace process" by seeking statehood.
Without breaking her affably conversational tone, in "Letting Go of God" she inhabits the emotional memory of each step on her path, from the cozy warmth of her erstwhile prayerful faith to the confusion and terror, and finally the hard-earned peace of mind, that attend her gradual un-conversion.
"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?
Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).
In what will be the biggest push for peace in over a decade – in 2004 Greek Cypriots rejected what was then seen as the most sophisticated reunification plan for the island – the two men are acutely aware that time is of the essence if the erstwhile British colony is to be put back together again.
The number of Gazan "peace walls", intended to prevent petrol bombs and the like being lobbed between the communities, has actually risen since 1998.Still, new housing has been built in the erstwhile badland along the barrier separating the Falls and Shankill roads.
"The imams, the Ottomans, the British, the Egyptians and the Soviet backers [of the erstwhile communist state that existed in the south until 1990] had all had to recognise that what Yemeni tribesmen cared about most was money and land, not peace or religion or any ideology".
