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  • There is no place in this country, in the 21st Century, for this kind of stupidity. sickman

    Republicans say Carter playing 'race card' 2009

  • You were CO then, and we thought maybe you were a sickman even if you didn't look like it, and you kept sort of sticking up for the sick corps whenever it was mentioned.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • Now these men had a new CO who was not only a stranger, but one who they felt sure was a member of the feared and mistrusted Psi Corps, a sickman, a man whose battle tactics were reputedly nothing but a bunch of blind, wild guesses.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • Nobody but a sickman would have his orders cut at Central for a puny little ship like ours.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • Seems they got a new CO assigned to it who was obviously a sickman, just like us.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • "Captain, will you tell us whether or not you are a sickman -- I mean a

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • "Everybody knows that once they've assigned a sickman, the only people who can get him reassigned are the sickmen themselves.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • "Then they won't have time to fish us out another sickman, and you'll be the skipper, Maise.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

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