Word: corkscrewing
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First step is to stop the spurting blood, by tourniquet or by a surgical clamp applied directly to the bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around...
...single-seater plane was flying much too low for acrobatics. The Army pilot, overconfident, rolled it out of one tight vertical turn into another in the opposite direction. As the ship lost flying speed it rebelled, shuddered, whipped over and down in a sickening corkscrew. The pilot never had a chance to recover control...
This explains why beavers of later ages did not also live in corkscrew nests. They did not lose the art; the convenient lianas just disappeared as Nebraska cooled...
...three-quarters miles. It begins in the clear above timber line, winds through wooded traverses, over rocky slopes, abandoned mine shafts, ending in a sharp pitch with an abrupt runout at the finish. Six times an old mining road crosses the course. Chief hazard, however, is the "Big Corkscrew"-five great curves down a 34-degree slope through a glade 50 feet wide. Those who take it in tight curves close to the centre line pick up so much speed that they have no choice but to jump the abandoned road at the bottom...
...beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National Ski Association President Roger Langley, after this first trial of Roch Run: "There never has been a race course anywhere...