Word: glues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowoastein has a good arm, but he's not the aerial circus that Clayton is. The Chelmsford flash has a cross-bow right arm and throws beautiful bullet passes. Of course, ends Vince Marriott and John McDonald have been suffering from glue-fingertips but that Clayton--he's a football player's football...
...large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated in minute droplets spaced along the web strands at regular intervals...
...Aranea manages this was, for a long time, a puzzle to observers. Then says Author Crompton, "the secret came out." The spider simply twangs the glued tieline, as a bass fiddle player twangs the strings of his instruments. The glue is thus shaken into exactly equidistant droplets...
Frightened Cardinal. Not many kinds of spider kill as elegantly as Aranea. One called Agelena makes a heavy sheet web that she spreads out on a bush or hedge, where it looks like a flimsy, dirty handkerchief. Agelena has no glue, and she must subdue her victim before he breaks loose. This involves violent battles and considerable risk every time she tackles something that can fight. But Agelena is a big spider (her body is three-quarters of an inch long), and she has an advantage which one arachnologist has neatly compared to that of a man on skis chasing...
...Voice originates in three bustling, crowded office buildings on Manhattan's West 57th Street, in a peculiar atmosphere compounded of foreign accents, glue, bureaucracy and an enthusiasm not often found in government departments. Few men on the Voice staff are topnotch professionals; most work exceptionally hard, and have, on the whole, done a good job. Boss of the Voice is Foy D. Kohler, 42, an Ohioan and a veteran foreign service career man with years of duty which have given him a patient smile and a prematurely wrinkled face. Responsible for Voice policy is able ex-Newspaperman Edward Barrett...