Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving into Ladakh in force, the Chinese waylaid an Indian patrol near Kongka Pass in October 1959, killed nine...
...Chicago's Lawndale district on the west side of the city, the dark, slum-speckled streets breed a tale of terror. One night six Negro boys jumped out of the dark and lashed a 69-year-old white man with bicycle chains. Another gang waylaid a 12-year-old white boy in a schoolyard and bludgeoned him. Four white men dragged a Negro from his car, beat and robbed him, then for good measure smashed the car against a pole...
...Magnum pistol when suddenly it sent a high-powered slug through his stomach. On the verge of death, Maughmer seemed to back her story. But nine days later he recovered enough to tell a different tale. After a violent argument, he said, she had waylaid him in the bedroom and shot him in a cold fury...
...climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient, Pat," shouted Panama's third baseman Hector...