Word: seasickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, Collins said: "O.K., world. Hang onto your hat. I'm going to turn you upside down." As Collins rotated his camera, keeping it pointed toward the earth, the blue and white planet took an erratic 180° turn on earth-based TV screens. "I'm making myself seasick," Collins called to Houston. "I'm going to put you right side up." The earth promptly performed another lazy turn on the TV screens...
...Long's chores keep him below decks much of the time, poring over charts- an occupation that undoubtedly contributes to his mal de mer. "I don't see how Huey enjoys sailing," says an Ondine deck hand. "He's seasick all the time. During the whole Bermuda race, he only ate a couple of pieces of bread and drank a little water...
...like an Evinrude. Senator William Fulbright rattled off the word commitment 15 times in one interview. And Congressman Gerald Ford got so hung up on a metaphor about the "ship of state" in "a storm-tossed sea" that Reasoner correctly observed: "People were beginning to feel seasick...
...Aussies have another hope too. Could be that Bus Mosbacher will get seasick-which, at times, he does...
...fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated a 473-pounder two days later. Adam himself stayed out of the tournament, explained Sponsor Roland McCann, "so she would have the best chance...