Word: claimers
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...unnamed newsmagazine. I shouldn't have been surprised at how often I was asked about the extent to which my fictional magazine was really TIME, where I had worked for a few years in the early '60s. Instead of the conventional disclaimer, after all, Floater began with a claimer: "The character of Andy Wolferman is based on John Gregory Dunne, though it tends to flatter. The other characters are fictional...
...Johnson," Bate observed in his earlier book on the subject (1955), "I have found that every year that passes leaves one feeling less qualified to do it." But undergraduates who thronged to his celebrated lectures on Johnson at Harvard would not have been disheartened by such a modest dis claimer. Even so, Bate's biography surpasses every expectation. It is an achievement that rivals Richard Ellmann's James Joyce and Leon Edel's five-volume Henry James in force of insight if not in literary...
McPhee notes that one of these Government pamphlets, detailing problems that arose during the making of the first A-bombs, carries a thoughtful dis claimer: "Neither the United States, nor the [Atomic Energy] Commission . . . assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, ap paratus, method, or process disclosed in this report...
...explained his phenomenal success by saying, "You just got to use common sense and know when a horse feels like running." Put another way, he had an uncanny ability to diagnose a horse's failings and make winners out of rejects-such as Stymie, a runty $1,500 claimer he bought in 1943 that went on to earn $918,485. All told, during his 43 years as a trainer, he chalked up 3,569 victories and purses worth...
...delights in tapping out his bundle on a certain New York router called Amstel. When Amstel whacked out all the other cheapies in a $5000 claimer at Aqueduct a few weeks ago and romped home by a sweet six lengths the Wellesley Kid was a heavy contributor to the odds-on price of three to five...