41.   But no one in Washington is waiting for a final tally to lay claim to any surplus.

42.   But this rural Louisiana parish near Shreveport is hardly the only community that can lay claim to the Barrow gang.

43.   But the United States can lay a claim to the man who won the hurdles race Friday night.

44.   Certainly, if any violinist is to lay claim to the quintessentially American Gershwin, the Indiana-born Bell would have to be a prime candidate.

45.   Did the league want to prevent a bitter feud over which area would lay claim to the franchise?

46.   Dilberitos can lay claim to the title of the first fast-food nutraceutical.

47.   Each occupant would lay claim to the highest possible profile in the project.

48.   Even the old Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants can lay claim to the carpetbagging teams that relocated in California.

49.   Even the state of Maine has made some half-hearted attempts to lay claim to Cabot.

50.   Few of the works here lay claim to literary aspirations, but there is at least one that demonstrates that a good mystery can run deep.