Word: fidelis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with "involvement in the most seamy operations" of British agents operating in Eastern European nations. One ploy, Izvestia reported, was to play certain tunes at prearranged times, thus enabling a British spy to forecast such events and so prove to local recruits that he was a bona fide spook. The BBC dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and in its own sly way mocked the paper's paranoia: "If there are any agents on the job in Moscow waiting for today's message," said a solemn-toned announcer last week, "here it is." There followed the theme from Come...
College Bowl emcee Allen Ludden, who later admitted he was rooting for Yale, ruled that Chatzie was a bona fide Yalie...
...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
Humphrey has gone to great lengths to explain exactly what he means by the happiness slogan-slightly dressed up as "the spirit of public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...staff hotel was demonstrative of their whole attitude. The Antlers was seven blocks from headquarters and just a step away from becoming a bona fide flophouse. The cockroaches attested to that. Or the bathrooms that flooded with cold water whenever you tried to take a shower. The single, cardboard elevator was operated by Maggie, a rough, surly old woman. Single men were warned not to ride the elevator with her alone, especially if they were going all the way to the eighth floor. The Antlers had been chosen for one reason--it was cheap. The staff responded to the challenge...