Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Siles turned the magazines over to TIME's La Paz agent, but as the agent lugged them out of the palace he was waylaid by waiting members of the M.N.R. Youth-a Siles-supporting branch of the government's National Revolutionary Movement-and all the magazines were stolen. A day later two La Paz papers ran translations of the story, including the point that the remark was in jest, but the official government newspaper La Nación banner-lined: TIME, THE FINGERNAIL OF IMPERIALISM'S VILE CLAW, OFFENDS BOLIVIA. Next morning 2,000 blue...
...blotched. Nature turns the tables on 18-year-old Isa, too. As the mother fails, the daughter blooms. From Isa's great hate for Maurice blossoms, first, interest, and next, fascination. One midnight, when the slip-clad girl goes downstairs to fasten a banging door, she is waylaid by the panther-ishly urgent lawyer. Next morning she tries in vain to scare up her conscience: "You have a lover. You slept with your stepfather...
...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...Sydney. Australia, Phyllis Newton was fined $116 after she waylaid her husband on his return from a swim, pelted him with fruit, brass ashtrays, a doorstop, an electric iron, a lemon squeezer, a portable radio and a radiator, then cut up his new suit with a razor and burned his swimming trunks in the stove...
...moon's shadow raced over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...