Word: seasick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, subtly curving fuselage, the strange little canard wing tacked on near the nose, the great, boxlike maw of the engine air intakes have all combined to earn North American's XB-70A the mildly derisive nickname, "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent." But as it taxied out onto the runway at Palmdale, Calif., last week, Cecil seemed to come alive with new dignity. That single plane designed to cruise at three times the speed of sound may be all that is left of the Air Force dream of big supersonic manned bombers, but all by itself...
...capsized a good many more dinghies than most other small boys, and apart from "a bit of paddling" about the Mediterranean during the war. he really wasn't the least bit qualified to open the exhibit. In fact, he said, throwing it all up, "I get frightfully seasick...
Meanwhile Fermoyle brightens a poverty-stricken country parish and becomes a secretary to Cardinal Glennon of Boston, a role played by Director John Huston with a ripsnorting vitality that all but steals the show. Smoking an expensive cigar, raising the devil with a young curate, or getting riotously seasick en route to Rome, Huston is superb. He wangles a Vatican appointment for his bright young aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While...
...woman, "the safer we thought we'd be." A Cuban patrol boat trailed the H-11, but bore off, apparently discouraged by the flag. The ship's water supply grew short; there were 100 tins of Russian meat aboard, but it had spoiled. Almost everyone was seasick. One woman had a heart attack; a pregnant woman started hemorrhaging...
...more than 160 years, French and British engineers have proposed linking their countries with a tunnel under the English Channel. Though the plan appealed to many people-from seasick travelers to "one Europe" visionaries-it never came alive. The reason: Britain's reluctance to violate what Gladstone called "that streak of silver sea" that for centuries protected the island nation from invaders...