on the sick list
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In a typical month, dozens of them wind up on the sick list as a result of diabetes, birth complications, infected teeth, or any one of a score of other problems, including injuries from fighting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
The coachman is on the sick list and the housekeeper has taken charge of him.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
