Word: seasickers
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...When statesmen and politicians went on pilgrimages to the mountain top, I became mentally seasick. When they said 'there is good in everyone, and we will get the good out of him,' I felt even sicker. We read 'Mein Kampf' and saw that we were up against something that would set us back 10,000 years...
...they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack: "I'm willing to die for the President but I'll be damned if I get seasick...
...games were intended to exercise the armies' logistical services: kitchens, ammunition details, supply corps, ambulance units. Actual battle conditions were feigned in every detail, right down to fifth columnists who lent boats to the invaders so that they might cross the huge inland lake, Lough Neagh, and, though seasick, encircle the bungling defenders...
...ever been an alderman. Still less does he seem a hard-bitten politico with a good liberal record who has beaten Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months, transferred to the Army, fought in France, met the French girl he afterwards married, got back to Harvard (and Porcellian and Hasty Pudding) to graduate just before the family fortunes collapsed. He had a brief spell of newspaper work, and then Joseph Baldwin was in politics...
...brief (1935 to 1937) movie career, in which she was not a great success, she sang arias 50 times running without a murmur of complaint. Lily Pons hates champagne, drinks little wine, likes Coca-Cola, touches hard liquor and cigarets not at all. She still feels faintly seasick all day before a concert or opera performance...