Word: lassoeing
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...wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...
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...Clementon, N. J., Harry Blackley accused Nicholas Poland of stealing his chickens with a lasso...
...learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire in 1914, to succeed to a white man. Lomen secured it and on the day of his succession founded the Lomen Reindeer Corp. The new company instituted reforms at once, substituted the corral for the lasso,† built a cold storage plant and proper houses for herdsmen. The problems of marking, slaughtering, packing and shipping, which had never occured to the Eskimos, were studied...
Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But the General Electric Company can now make it to order. Last week Physicist Frank William Peek Jr. announced in his address to the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that artificial lightning of 3,600,000 volts had been produced by a new generator in the high voltage engineering laboratory at Pittsfield, Mass...