Word: bailiwicks
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...fact that Mrs. Eisenhower is to be the Nautilus' sponsor at its christening next week aggravated the offense. Secretary Wilson, as the man in whose bailiwick the trouble had started, was madder than anyone...
Boss of the lower river for the three companies that combine St. Maurice operations is tough, Norway-born Steinar Jenssen, 62. The wood drifts into his bailiwick at the town of La Tuque. Aided by ingenious, mechanical sorting gaps, Jenssen's men will drop it off at the proper owners' mills-yellow-daubed four-foot logs for Brown Corp., swastika-stamped four-footers for Consolidated Paper, twelve-footers for Canadian International Paper...
...getting elected, Johnson picked up, as most politicians do at one time or another, some political scars. Cynics, noting Lyndon's narrow margin of victory, pointed to the odd voting procedure in Jim Wells County, in the bailiwick of notorious Political Boss George Parr. Originally, Jim Wells turned in a count of 1,786 for Johnson, 769 for Coke Stevenson. Then, six days later, the county reported a corrected count: Johnson 1,988, Stevenson 770. The correction put Johnson over. Stevenson charged fraud, but the polling list and ballots from Precinct 13 (where Stevenson said the fraud occurred) could...
...administered by the U.S. as trustee for the United Nations): Frank Elbert Midkiff, 65. Born in Anna, Ill. Midkiff went to Hawaii at 25 to take a job as an English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value to the U.S. is purely military: some islands serve as bases...
...Highest Aim. But as an educator, President Conant never stuck to any particular bailiwick. He wandered into every field-from the teaching of science and the education of dentists to the training of teachers. Sometimes he wandered into fields that seemed far from Harvard Yard...