Word: bona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though he came to Harvard bona fide rugby star, with the experience and talent few 17 year-olds possess, Soren Oberg realized that he would likely have to wait a few years before making the A-Side rugby team...
...feel obligated to use "Sammy"--call me any nickname you please, or even expend a little energy and blurt out "Jonathan." But whatever you choose, make sure that don't get lazy and call me "Jon"--the legal name of millions of bona fide individuals worldwide. if you know what's good...
...past 16 years 63,000 boat people have fled Vietnam to seek asylum in Hong Kong. Unable to accommodate them in overcrowded detention centers, the colony wants to send back all who do not qualify as bona fide refugees under U.N. guidelines. Last week, after two years of negotiations, Britain and Vietnam signed a statement of understanding in which Hanoi agreed to the return of nonpolitical refugees...
...Atlantic. Our Navy and our country needed us, and we were well enough trained to serve competently for the four years it took to win the war. I spent nearly four years at sea participating in six major engagements and campaigns in the Pacific. This is to establish my bona fides...
Only after months of prodding and nagging on both sides of the Atlantic did Bush and his closest aides realize that skepticism about Gorbachev's bona fides was not a real policy toward the Soviet Union. Even then, it took James Baker to shake the Administration to life. He is one of the best politicians ever to serve as Secretary of State. Critics say he is excessively concerned with how diplomacy is playing on the home front; he has been quick, for example, to justify the Administration's performance abroad by pointing to polls showing how popular the President...