Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then he got waylaid by history. After the Wall came down, he advocated a go- slow policy on unification. And when the unity drive picked up steam, he attacked Kohl's claim that it could be financed without straining national resources and raising taxes. What Lafontaine underestimated was the depth of feeling on both sides of the old Iron Curtain in favor of merging the two Germanys -- and with that his strategy backfired. His effectiveness as a campaigner was also undermined by near tragedy: in April a deranged woman plunged a knife into his neck, just missing the carotid artery...
While attempting to track down rumors about the formation of a new student publication this week, one reporter apparently got waylaid by agents of an old one. After contacting two of the magazine's supposed representatives, she was informed that the students intended to publish on a daily basis. Further inquiries elicited the information that the new group was funded by none other than Richard Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect the President...