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Several conservative Senators started to walk from the chamber, sure that they had sidetracked the Borah bill.

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He had sidetracked those who seemed especially treacherous.

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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.

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It had sidetracked the private car attached to the rear of the last pullman and was puffing away westward, when Ashton guided his running team in among the crude shacks of the town.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George