Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual matches with B.C. were undecided going into the eigthteenth hole, and the Crimson players won all three. Dick Reilly, playing third, and Dick Burnstein, playing seventh, both managed to win in the eighteenth, but fourth man Bob Grundeman had to play 21 holes before he could claim victory...
When the umpire disallowed this, Meeham rushed to the scene to claim the ball was fair afer all. He soon shifted his ground to the stronger plea that the infield fly rule should be in force and the batter ruled automatically out. The umpire's apparent answer to this was, first of all, that he hadn't invoked the infield fly rule, which is left to his descretion, and secondly, that the rule didn't apply because the ball had bounced foul...
Christ cursed a fig tree, and in a matter of hours, says the Gospel of Mark (11:20), it was "dried up from the roots." The Rev. Franklin Loehr and his Religious Research Foundation in Los Angeles do not claim such dramatic results, but they are off to a flying start, as reported in a new book (Doubleday; $3.50) titled The Power of Prayer on Plants...
...Montés' futile wanderings is told through the recollections of derisive and uncomprehending French villagers, resifted by the man who collected the gossip, and who was the gaunt man's only close acquaintance. Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid and, with her baby still unborn, retreated grimly to the distant home. From such...
...been prepared for eccentric remarks--after all, the chap wrote poetry--but to claim that the meaning of life sat on the mantel in a Harvard room! Shaken, he reached for the object which he now saw to be a corked bottle containing a crumpled piece of dark cloth...