Word: bailiwicks
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...Republican Party was founded in 1854, the Courant joined it, and has never left. The paper has since broken ranks to endorse only one Democrat for any office. It urged Hartford to elect Thomas Spellacy for mayor in 1935. The Courant's influence in its own bailiwick can be measured by the fact that Spellacy was elected...
...North Borneo, June Jensby, 19, a Webber, Kans., 4-H girl, found that every long house in her bailiwick had a rusty Singer sewing machine, purchased years ago as a status symbol. But nobody knew how to work them. She scored a considerable local success by oiling the machines and giving sewing lessons. Since then, she has enlarged her curriculum to include lessons in playing volleyball, building latrines and making jam from bananas and brewing soup from cucumbers and eggs...
...Russia's own bailiwick, the Chinese Reds also stayed on the offensive. Communist Rumania, which has been feuding with the Kremlin over Moscow's interference in its economic affairs, gleefully published a lengthy summary of the Red Chinese indictment. Peking's embassy in Moscow boldly distributed Russian-language copies of its manifesto. Callers were greeted by an attaché, and after a polite chat over tea, got as many translations of the 63-page document as they wanted...
...bailiwick, your report on Love, McNichols, Dominick and Carroll was equally impartial and keen...
This was Eddie McCormack's own bailiwick, and he meant to make the most of it. Plastered with cosmetics for television, he reminded the audience in the South Boston High School auditorium that he had gone to that very school and married a girl from that neighborhood. Then he launched into an attack that for sustained violence was remarkable even in Massachusetts' butt-and-gouge political history...