Word: corkscrewing
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...wave, 2) a particle or 3) a combination of both. Sometimes it behaves like one, sometimes like the other. Last fortnight a physicist advanced a brand-new theory: that light is some kind of electrodynamic force which travels not in waves or straight lines but like a corkscrew...
...glass tube, then dropped into the beam microscopic particles of matter (e.g., chromium). When the particles were smaller than the light's wave length, they fell straight down. But bigger particles, instead of falling straight, as they would have if affected only by gravity, fell in a corkscrew spiral, with regularly spaced turns...
Each of Dr. Mahoney's patients was given an injection of 25,000 units of penicillin in the buttock muscles every four hours. Each received 48 injections. After 16 hours of treatment, the corkscrew-shaped spirochetes no longer showed up under the microscope in serum from the lesion. Dr. Mahoney was "stunned"; this is the first case on record in which penicillin has killed spirochetes, a higher form of life than bacilli. Yet the patients had no bad reaction from the injections...
...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...
When World War I came, Eddie enlisted, wangled a job as chauffeur to General John J. Pershing. He drove him to the front lines only once. As a flyer Eddie was resourceful, by turns cautious and daring. No U.S. flyer learned so well the corkscrew roll which enabled him to see ahead, behind, above, below and to the side; none topped his bag of 21 German planes and four balloons...