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Wandering in the Woods yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Wandering in the Woods'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Originally I had intended to write about the rising cost of oil, but I was waylaid and shanghied from my destination.
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"The Captain shanghied him, I reckon," cut in Cales.
Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power Wyn Roosevelt
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And then pray like hell your vote isn’t stolen or shanghied or overturned or lost.
Think Progress » Murtha Attacked by the Right For Quote Falsely Attributed to Him 2006
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Practice daily that I shanghied this post, which isn’t fair.
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