"It's no accident that so many of her entries describe dinner parties, because Julavits sounds like the ideal dinner-party guest, always regaling you with exotic travel tales, dishy gossip about her friends, and funny stories--such as the time she tried to urinate into an
airsickness bag on a plane.
Even if they had been rested before the flight, they would have had trouble staying awake, especially if they had taken pills given to them to fight
airsickness on the flight.
We travelled across the Channel and back six times a day and I battled with terrible
airsickness.
A full bladder could probably wait that long, but not
airsickness. If it's an hour, though, better divert.
Elsewhere, prophylactic pharmaceutical products were developed to protect pilots from sensations of nausea, with 'Dr Gimbell's Glutinous Globules' reportedly offering instant relief from
airsickness. (49)
About 50 percent of aviators experience
airsickness at some time in their career and the rate is higher for NFOs (85 percent).
Before a professional translator and editor could check the phrase, the airline paid to print the words "Fly is Cheap" on signs, aircraft and
airsickness bags.
It is my first visit to the Centennial State and my first time turning such a verdant hue from
airsickness. And it's about to be my first time experiencing American Evangelicalism up close and personal.
Largest collection of
airsickness bags THE largest collection of in-air, paper vom traps belongs to marketing and investment consultant Niek Vermeulen, of the Netherlands, who had (as of March 2004) over 3,728 from more than 802 different airlines, not to mention a further 10,000 spare bags.
Categories of attrition included DOR, medical reasons (MED), failure in academic or flying performance (Flying/Academic), and lack of adaptability (LOA)--which includes students who withdrew due to fear of flying, persistent
airsickness, or manifestations of apprehension.
Aside from Bishop's and Williams's citations of the magazine, examples abound: in Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), Mick Kelly escapes small-town boredom by going to the public library to look at pictures of foreign places in National Geographic (161); in a 1951 poem Frank O'Hara writes slyly of a poet who "slides warmly o'er the world / on nationally geographic carpets / never afraid of
airsickness oh / what a dog he is for th'exotic" (36); at the conclusion of the Life Studies poem "During Fever" (1959), Robert Lowell casts his grandfather's practice of reading National Geographic while chaperoning his daughter and her male callers as exemplary of "that old life of decency" (80).
And Petroleum is used for sea or
airsickness with a sensation of emptiness in the stomach that is relieved by constant eating.
Most stewardesses into the 1940s were also trained nurses, able to address
airsickness, anxiety, or injuries suffered from a crash.
