Word: fide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most stars prefer to summer in places other than Moscow, so a bona fide celebrity gets noticed. And Richard Gere has been noticed ducking out early from screenings at the film festival he's attending, kissing a woman called "Masha" onstage at the festival's opening, and getting a police citation for fishing illegally...
...FROM CRACKING DOWN, ATF allowed the number of licensed gun dealers to swell to nearly 300,000 by 1993. Often it failed to conduct thorough background checks for prior criminal offenses. In a survey it found that 72% of its licensed dealers never even bothered to open a bona fide store, but operated instead from their homes. Under Magaw, however, the bureau has lately got much tougher on applicants, requiring for the first time that they submit fingerprints and a photograph. Now the number of dealers is falling at a rate of 150 dealers a day, an ATF spokesman says...
Business School professors described Clark as abona fide intellectual...
...short, Harvard athletics has a bona-fide dynasty on its hands when it comes to the men and women's squash teams. And everyone--even those dreaded Yalies--are resigned to that fact...
...turn as a soused college student in 1913's The Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song...