Word: fidelis
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...that they're looking "awful pretty today," is adamant about that. There's a weird ethic going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch if she wanted it just to sit in the car." It's practically--no, it is--a bona fide matter of honor. A bona fide matter of honor right here in his prefab Ford showroom in the middle of nowhere...
...Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by bona fide Protestants like former Mayor John Lindsay, and now handed over to the latest pioneers...
...bona fide concerns on both sides, the crisis also had some elements of a political game whose players, perhaps unwittingly, had let the stakes get out of hand. Syria, for example, could not hope to win a war with Israel. Yet there it was deploying its missiles in the most provocative fashion possible. As one British intelligence specialist observed: "It's hard to take too seriously a line of missiles drawn up as if on the playground, without any semblance of camouflage...
...Black Bears were the nine's first bona fide competition of the season (in its opener, the Crimson downed MIT, 16-5), and although it lost both ends of the twinbill, 5-4 and 11-8, Morris lauded his team for demonstrating an ability to come back after the Main squad had established sizeable leads...
...even Democrats moved toward the realization that they did not have all the answers. If the "ins" had any doubts about their effectiveness, the overwhelming success of Proposition 13 in June 1979--and the similar proposals it inspired in other states--earned the tax revolt status as a bona fide national phenomenon...