Word: bailiwick
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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...
...Harvard's new Office of Undergraduate Affairs. After all, Arthurs has been hard at work for the last two years preparing the scenario for her own exit. Voicing her views "very noisily" on the Strauch Committee, Arthurs pushed for an admissions policy that would make her own Byerly Hall bailiwick superfluous. Now, with equal access and merged admissions offices a reality, she is sadly saying goodbye to what she calls "an independent, autonomous, happy office...
Large sections of Chicago's West and South sides, on the other hand, are canyons of fear at night, the bailiwick of stickup men and roaming bands of toughs. As in other crime-ridden cities, elderly Chicagoans are nervous about going out, especially when they see their apartment buildings ringed by young hoodlums on the days when welfare and Social Security checks arrive...