Word: corkscrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spiral v. Corkscrew. Keeping editors from one Tomorrow to the next had been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished...
Villain of the tale: Corky, a dark-visaged spirochete 1/3000th of an inch tall, with a corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...
...Mike carries a blackthorn cane (as a boy he injured his hip in a fall), talks tough, and considers his greatest achievement a daring sit-down strike he pulled in 1937. He loudly denies that he is a Communist, but he has followed the U.S. Communists' corkscrew line with regularity...
...southern Okinawa the fighting was grim. By week's end the troops had gained from 800 to 1,400 yards, but had established no driving momentum. One village was won and lost again. "Buck" Buckner stuck to his formula-root them out "with blowtorch and 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...