Word: seasickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...
Harry Truman's vacation on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg had been going badly. In Narragansett Bay he had encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
...fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
...world gone mad, religion, as always, provides the only haven. Its therapeutic powers may not be so consistently advertised as those of Mothersill's Seasick Remedy; but those of us who have sampled this medicine know that it is the only ultimate source of sanity, hope, and peace...
...calculated that in its thickest section the radius is about ½ mile more. The Izotov globe is flattened slightly not only at the poles, like previous globes, but at the equator. Thus the earth, like every ellipsoid, has three axes instead of two and must rotate with a slightly seasick motion...