An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
**3. One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy.
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I was BEING A JERK. Don’t bother me with facts. Facts are for women, Democrats, & Frenchmen. Anywhistle, a cursory examination of some current dictionaries close out hand supports your position better than mine, so I’ll drop it.
Lazarus wouldn’t do it. In both *Metheselah’s Children *& Time Enough For Love, he goes out of his way to avoid leadership responsibilities, and I can see no reason to expect anything different.
Have a problem with the budget or the war (or anything really)? Just restructure reality to write the problem out of existence! Granted we’d have to coax her into doing it subconsciously, considering we can’t let her know about her godlike powers lest she get bored and completely destroy and remake reality to entertain herself…
Yuki because she’s LIVING DATA. Anything on a cyber-level that happens Yuki can take care of. I suppose we can work Mikuru (the Time Traveler) and Itsuki (an ESPer) somewhere in the cabinet/Secret Service or something, they could be useful for obvious reasons.
Oh, they’re not US citizens? Haruhi can take care of that… or we could just have Yuki manipulate all computerized data regarding their identities and no one would be the wiser.
I have the greatest respect for Captain Picard’s honorable service to the United Federation of Planets - but a man with irumodic syndrome has no place in the White House.
Definitely a Kruppe / Vetinari ticket, with Iscaral Pust as Minister of Defence, Karsa Orlong as the Justiciary [branch], Moist von Lipwig as the Treasurer and Sam Vimes as the head of the Legislative.