Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a stint as editor of the New Republic, Wallace was wooed and waylaid by the hard-eyed opportunists of the Progressive Party. Though never a Communist himself, he accepted Communist help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." But from the start of the campaign it was plain that the Progressive leadership was interested solely in exploiting Wallace's popular appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance...
...Same Problems." First off, Bar ry Goldwater got waylaid by newsmen on the question of what he thought about Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, now running for mayor of New York City while industriously trying to disassociate himself from the Republican label. Barry knew what he thought, all right. Said he: "I'd think a man who's registered as a Republican would be proud to run as one in a partisan election." Pressed further, Goldwater added: "I don't know enough about Lindsay to give you the time of day. I know...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. As a care free bachelor who gets waylaid into matrimony, Jack Lemmon pleads the case for uxoricide, though his manservant (Terry-Thomas) makes the crime nonsensical, and his scrumptious lady (Italy's Virna Lisi) makes it practically unthinkable...
Lest other biographers should overlook them, MacArthur retells with zest the high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed...
...where Neal Curtin has been installed in the first unit. Yovicsin described Curtin's replacement of Joe Jurek on the starting team as a "merit promotion." Films have shown that Curtin has regained the form that made him the top freshman tackle two years ago. Last season he was waylaid by injuries. Jurek has on occasion had had difficulty defending his outpost...