on the sick list
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For the first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now & then he put one of them on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
The day we sailed, Mr. Flinn was taken ill; and, Lieutenant Wickham being on the sick list, I was the only commissioned officer able to keep the deck.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
