Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, Mike went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right & left in his county bailiwick on Portland's fringes...
When the convention had adopted George Drew's platform, there was nothing left for it to do but adopt George Drew. On the first ballot Drew got 827 votes, to 311 for Diefenbaker, and 104 for earnest M.P. Donald Fleming, a rival from Drew's own Ontario bailiwick...
...immediate task will be arranging "bilateral agreements" between the United States and the 16 Marshall Plan nations. After that, his bailiwick will extend to legal questions in each ERP country, as well as to the central structure of the program...
Fundamentally it must justify its existence through its attack on pressing question in its own bailiwick. In this respect the Councils authoritative and comprehensive reports have become the bedrock of a good name earned the hard...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...