Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
Spain's political scene would be a duller place without Luisa's fiery manifestoes, Spain's prison a duller place without her silk pajamas...
...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...
...insect, she drinks its blood on the spot, or paralyzes it with poison from her fangs and takes it to her lair to be kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from all her 600 spinnerets. Only when the victim is trussed up and helpless in silken swathes does Aranea tow it away to the slaughterhouse...
...order not to interfere with one another. With most spiders, dispersion is accomplished by ballooning. The young climb in great hordes to an eminence of some sort (e.g., a tree stump), and wait for calm, warm weather. When it comes, the little ones throw out streamers of gauzy silk and rise on warm currents of ascending air. If the currents are spotty, the spiders may come to earth a few yards away, but they may go up to 14,000 feet or higher, travel hundreds and thousands of miles...