Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to his opinion, there is less inclination to use the church as a political and military weapon, and more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...
...news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...
...about Henry B. Cole, our native correspondent on the Guinea Coast, but we last heard from him three months ago in Monrovia. He has worked for TIME three years now, sending us all sorts of unexpected stories and interesting sidelights on the echoes of World War II in his bailiwick. In addition he is Associate Editor of "Who's Who in Liberia" and the author of something he calls "A Classic: God and the Negro"-and all in all we have grown so fond of him we would like to send a Stanley to Africa to see what happened...
...from the Ivy league is Dr. Rainey's bailiwick (despite its student enlistments Texas remains the biggest university in the South), where students are so unsheltered that nearly a fifth are married and last year six were in the legislature. Lively Texas has been on the select membership list of the Association of American Universities since 1929, is one of four Southern universities so distinguished...
Voting was slow. Albany County gave 32 votes to Mead: no surprise. Allegany was next with three for Bennett: no surprise. But when the roll call reached Erie County, the Bennett forces cheered: they picked up 14 votes out of 58 in Mead's own bailiwick. When Kelly's Brooklyn held solidly for Bennett, it was all over. Final count: Bennett 623, Mead...