Word: seasickness
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...Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed on the sunny deck, one of them engaged the Pak Tang's armed Communist guard (there is always one aboard) in a game of chess...
Swashbuckling young Lawyer Fidel Castro set off the violence when he trained a group of irregulars in Mexico and landed with 81 of them, seasick but nervy, in Cuba's southern Oriente province (TIME, Dec. 10, et seq.). The Batista forces killed about 30 in confused skirmishes, but the rest fought and dodged their way through the army and into the tangled underbrush of the Sierra Maestra...
Monsoon rains greeted the Carlins in India, and they put up in Calcutta for repairs. There Elinore, 39, who had been seasick all across the Atlantic, thought of the ocean travel ahead and decided to jump ship. Skipper Carlin ran advance ads in Australian newspapers for a replacement. All he wanted was a strong swimmer who was also a motor mechanic and a radio maintenance man and had enough money to repatriate himself from anywhere enroute. He got a 23-year-old Perth draftsman named Barry Hanley who knew something about small boats...
...deck to the outstretched arms of seamen. An impatient woman climbed the rail, dropped into the sea and swam for the nearest boat. As the boats filled and pulled away, some evacuees helped pull the oars, some sat stunned and silent, some leaned miserably over the side to be seasick...
Macdonald-Wright, brother of Mystery Writer S. S. Van Dine (real name: Willard Huntington Wright), grew up in a well-off hotel-managing family. His father treated him to painting lessons at five. At 15 young Stan rebelliously went to sea on a windjammer, got so seasick that he was put off at Hawaii. Private detectives sent by his father brought him back home. His family solved his wanderlust by sending him off at 16 to France to study...