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Word: battiwick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...kick him when he was down," but to explain as best I could how he got down there. The very fact that a man could lose the national election in 1960 and then be unable two years later to win the governorship in his own battiwick seemed to me a phenomenon worth explaining. Moreover, I considered it unfortunate that meet commentaries on Nixon's defeat were either disguised gloating or the kind of wrong-headed on comium Mr. Von Salzen has written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Mr. Nixon | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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