Word: spidered
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...really disturbing thing was that Dilworth couldn't be sure that Thursday breakfast had been omitted. He turned on his side to face the cracks in the wall, and watched intently as a black window spider crept slowly over the Dali. Somehow, it seemed to fit; it was right. The hands on the grandfather clock in the corner told Dilworth he had precious few minutes to resolve the question, for if breakfast was indeed being served, the dining hall would soon close...
Weaver v. Weaver. In Elko, Nev., arrested for drunkenness, Evan Harvey told the judge: "A friend advised me to treat a spider bite with alcohol and I drank too much...
...former leader of the French underground, Wybot had been made head of France's crack counterintelligence service in 1945 when he was only 33. Under him, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire spread so far, wide and mysteriously that it was once described as "a gigantic spider web, in the middle of which waits Wybot, his pipe in his mouth, in his soundproof office on the Rue des Saussaies." Some said that Wybot had compiled so many compromising dossiers that no French politician would ever dare to oust...
...Western Avenue bridge, a group of 'Punie candidates combined knavery and imcompetence in a disastrous effort to bring victory to their Bow Street masters. Scuttling out on the bridge, they flung a coarse fishing net over the side to snare the shell passing below. The net, traditionally used to "spider" and swing new editors during their colorful initiations, unerringly fell on the 'Poon boat, almost capsizing its old friends...
Commenting on Communist China's massive effort to herd all China's people into communes. Edward Hunter introduced a new word: insectivization. Said he: "They are insectivizing the whole people, making them into the Soviet man, on the level of the spider, or the ant, the Pavlovian concept, unthinkingly obedient to the master or to instinct...