Word: lassoeing
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...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...
Among the composers represented will be Inchois, Dufay, Byrd, Campian, Monteverdi, Tomkins, Machaut, di Lasso, and Josquin des Pres...
...pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes, it was a way of touching and riding the slope of a field, the thirsty arc of a sunflower, the surge of a mountain or the flamelike thrust of a cypress...
President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador has sent us his answer sheet for the last TIME News Quiz, which ran in the July 4 issue. He answered 91 of the 105 questions correctly, and is inclined to think that is quite a good mark. It is, in fact, considerably above average, and President Galo Plaza Lasso should be proud...
From Quito, President Galo Plaza Lasso flew to Ambato. He set up headquarters in the central square and for two days, without sleep or a change of clothing, directed rescue and relief work. Around him the homeless squatted among their salvaged blankets and cooking pots, and in nearly every group candles flickered before the picture of a saint...