Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staffer, "beyond remarkable." He's built a library staff, which he ceaselessly praises as the most committed and competent in the nation, that has kept Harvard in the fore of the library world. The number of employees in the College Library system--those 15 which come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million...
Boston's two other division-leading clubs are getting ready to close out their seasons in somewhat more stylish fashion. The Tea Men, fresh from a little get-together with some British customs officers in Boston Harbor, should finish up atop their little bailiwick in the North American Soccer League, although their chances of survival in the playoffs are cloudy at best. The season will end for the team on Saturday in Memphis, with Teaperson Mike Flanagan making a last stab at surpassing New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown (at this writing Flanagan trailed...
Wilhite batted .448 last season, has a .361 career batting average, and corrals just about everything in sight in his Morningside Heights bailiwick. "He's got all the tools," Stenhouse says of his eminence grise at Baker field...
...print, there has been no abler exponent of the Felkerian philosophy than the ingenious Felker himself. From its first issue of April 8,1968, his avenue-smart urban-survival one-upmanship manual has exerted an influence far beyond its current 375,000 circulation and Manhattan bailiwick. Though it is frequently footling and vulgar, the weekly's intelligence and imaginative thrust have given its aggressive boss the money-power to take over the raffish, rambunctious Village Voice in 1974 and, last year, to start New West, New York's California clone. They were to be only the first provinces...
...bailiwick, however, the maid seems to have sized up the situation perfectly. Between the lines of froth about clothes, jewels, travel, parties and grand houses, she implicitly lays down the common law: servants, not masters, are frequently the keepers of traditions, institutions and morals. They are rewarded by living high off the leavings of power and opulence...