| 1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones (1975) x. 102
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He went dirtside with Sam, dressed in his best and filled with curiosity.
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| 1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones 64
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If you mess it up, I'll leave you dirtside and raise without you. Let me see you walk again.
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| 1956 R. A. Heinlein in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 10/1
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If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman. It is a logical necessity. His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among the peasants.
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| 1956 R. A. Heinlein Time for Stars x. 102
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But somehow without its ever showing we were better chaperoned than is usual back dirtside.
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| 1986 D. Brin & G. Benford Heart of Comet 90
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Probably too late for me, though. I'll have to go live on Earth to have my babies, and no male spacer will give up the Black to stay dirtside with me.
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| 1987 C. Claremont FirstFlight iii. 33
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That same week, the Mission Specialists began loading and stowing their gear, the crew spending as much time aboard the spacecraft as dirtside at DaVinci.
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| 1987 C. Claremont FirstFlight iii. 37
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People who couldn't cut life dirtside and fled to space the way men used to join the French Foreign Legion?
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| 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity i. 12
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If the wizards back dirtside keep their part of the bargain, we could have a working fusion plant by early next year.
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| 1993 J. DeChancie Kruton Interface ii. 20
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It's just that everyone's dirtside and there's no one to stand watch during mealtime.
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| 1996 D. Weber Honor Among Enemies xxix. 381
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At least she wasn't forced to spend much time dirtside.
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| 2003 H. Phillips Gate Between Hope and Glory in S. Lee & S. Miller Low Port 47
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You're afraid that if the bosses, who already think your big brother is a unionizer, find him with unauthorized personnel they maybe won't bother with a shuttle when they send him dirtside, yeah?
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