Jet Lag (1965)

[Barry Popik]

    OED and Merriam-Webster have 1969.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 23 February 1965, pg. 21, col. 3:
>From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 23 February 1965, pg. 21, col. 3:

  _Inside Fashion_
_A Case of Jet Lag_
By Eugenia Sheppard
_Women's Feature Editor_
   One of the chic new ailments is jet lag.
   To suffer from jet lag it's necessary to have traveled at least six or
seven hours on a jet--long enough to have dislocated the time perspective
slightly.  The symptoms of the disease are vagueness and dizziness, and the
duration may be as long as a week.
   Jet lag strikes suddenly.  The victim disembarks from the jet plane
feeling gay as a sprite, dashes through customs, checks into home or a hotel
as the case may be, finds there's just time to make the next party, greets
friends and in the course of the next few hours falls into a light coma.
   From then on there's no quick cure for jet lag, described by various
sufferers as "like a long hangover," "like dancing out of step," and "like
feeling as if there were a huge sheet of plate glass between yourself and
the rest of the world."

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