Word: bailiwicks
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...only previous Shakespearean experience was as Portia and Viola. I admire her when she sticks to the limited bailiwick in which she can excel. But as a Shakespearean she is a nullity. She is often termed the doyenne of American actresses; but her current gambol earns her no better title than Helen...
...Washington last week emerged the pattern of the Kennedy Administration's approach to Latin American policy. Back to his old hemisphere bailiwick with the broadest grant of powers to handle Latin American affairs ever given any U.S. official went Adolf A. Berle, 66, Assistant Secretary of State from...
...this maze, lines of authority get tangled and jealousies flourish. Nobody in the Pentagon, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down, has been able to explain where Roy Johnson's bailiwick ends and Herb York's begins. York considers himself Johnson's boss; Johnson disagrees. Last year ARPA and the Air Force got into a prolonged squabble over whether or not U.S.A.F. would be stenciled on an Air Force rocket assigned to ARPA...
...Hoffa's own Detroit bailiwick, Teamster Business Agent Zigmont Snyder owned a nonunion car-wash that paid workers as little as $1 a day. Many a Hoffa crony has collected payoffs from employers for "sweetheart" contracts. Teamster Officer Gerald Connelly negotiated Teamster sweetheart contracts in Minneapolis, including one that lowered wages from $1.32 an hour to $1, another that cut workers back from $65 a week...
...during his first year as the State Department's No. 2 man, Herter regretted that yes. Strong-minded Foster Dulles was so toweringly No. 1 at State that No. 2 inevitably found himself uncomfortably overshadowed-especially after having been No. 1 for four years in his own Massachusetts bailiwick...