Word: lassoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Washington this week for a six-day state visit: Ecuador's President Galo Plaza Lasso...
Next Latin American chief of state to visit the U.S.: handsome President Galo Plaza Lasso, 45, of Ecuador, head of one of South America's few genuinely democratic regimes. President Plaza will fly north on June 19, be President Truman's guest in Washington for three days, make side trips to New York and California...
...nation's price stabilizer, Mike Di Salle is the man who is supposed to lasso prices at their highest level in history and hog-tie them-preferably by tomorrow morning, before the neighborhood A & P opens for business. He has to control prices, but he has no power over wages, on the other side of the balancing economic scales. He is supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other...
...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...