Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearing the wrath of their separate employers, they fled to Switzerland by separate routes. But Casanova was waylaid by a lady, arrived a day too late. Austrian agents had done away with Henriette. On a window in her room he found scratched her fond farewell: "Adieu my love Henriette...
...Allied "inefficiency," at the coming Nurnberg trials of big war criminals. Thousands of unemployed men had ample time for mischief. Here & there, snipers were still active. At night, G.I.s found wires strung across highways, intended to decapitate motorcyclists. U.S. Army cars were looted. German girls suspected of fraternizing were waylaid and warned...
...State of Pernambuco, freedom-loving Brazilian editors were finding the row of democracy hard to hoe. Items: The Journal Pequeno's outspoken editor, Osorio Borba. was caught in the net of Brazil's hated Security Tribunal; Editor Annibal Fernandes of the Diario de Per nambuco was waylaid by a goon squad...
With money supplied by relatives they bought liquor, which they smuggled into their quarters. Frequently they went AWOL and roamed the nearby towns, making ardent and often successful love to local girls. Two towns had barred them. Citizens of another town had one waylaid and thrashed a group of them...
Escape and Reward. On another patrol we waylaid a convoy. It was bright moonlight and rather difficult to carry out an attack on the surface because eventually we would be sighted. I hadn't appreciated they were zigzagging. When I was just ready to fire, everything all set, the fellow I was attacking zigged straight towards me. I couldn't get deep quite soon enough and the ship ran over the top of us. It smashed both periscopes, and took away quite large chunks of the bridge. We snooped beneath the convoy until they had passed. We were...