Word: corkscrewing
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...cameras and instruments to reconnoiter the solar system's largest planet. That will be only part of its task. As it passes 26,000 miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped turn and whipped out on a new trajectory. Its next target, after a five-year trip across a vast expanse of space: the ringed planet Saturn, never before explored by a ship from earth...
...Grendel's doesn's serve anything stronger than expresso, but for a few dollars you can stop off at the Pro before your meal and purchase the wine of your choice. Since this is a common occurrence at Grendel's, you will be provided with wine glasses and a corkscrew as soon as you reach into the paper...
...namesake must be turing in his grave, corkscrew fashion, with that logic. Alice Lewis Carroll
...bodies had been found and rescue workers expected to find more in the rushing waters and mud-caked debris of southeast Florida and a five-state area (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania) of the East. At least 387,700 persons were evacuated in Agnes' corkscrew wake. Property damage was put at upwards of $1.4 billion. A total of 131 counties and 25 cities were declared disaster areas...
Breeding has worked superbly at the Phoenix Zoo, which now contains 29 Arabian oryxes, the largest collection of this species of rare antelope outside their native Saudi Arabia. Oryxes are vanishing because the desert Arabs believe their corkscrew horns are an aphrodisiac. The animals will only be returned to Saudi Arabia, says Zoo Curator Wayne Homan, "if and when Saudi Arabia sets up a game preserve and also educates the population not to kill them...