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Word: waylaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, many students said that the rapid paceof events will put them behind in their normalwork schedule, and their academic lives will, as aresult, be waylaid on the road to mid-term exams...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Parents' Weekend Produces Joy, Terror | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

...older, world-weary image--a touch of gray at the temples, a wistfulness for waylaid innocence--that made Mastroianni a worldwide star. As the Dolce Vita gossipist, the moviemaker in Fellini's great 8 1/2 (1963) and the writer in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARCELLO MASTROIANNI (1924-1996): Imperfect, Irresistable | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

BACK HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, HER friends and relatives know Lori Berenson as a compassionate idealist, an innocent waylaid by her concern for the poor and oppressed of Latin America. Rhoda Berenson, a community-college physics teacher, says the very notion of her 26-year-old daughter's being involved in violence "is absolutely ridiculous." A friend since junior high school, Daniel Radosh, finds it "hard to reconcile what they are saying about her with the gentle person I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LORI BERENSON: ACCOMPLICE TO TERROR | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...many colleges, a year spent studying abroad is well-integrated into the curriculum as a significant part of the college experience. However, at Harvard, some students say their plans for foreign study have been waylaid in bureaucratic hassle and lack of administrative support...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: Study Abroad | 11/8/1995 | See Source »

Before the salvation of marriage can progress, society requires an encompassing consensus that there is a problem. Currently, evolving such a consensus is being waylaid by an ideological word game. As long as the term family is used to cover both the "real" family and its antithesis -- the single-parent version -- the question of whether a society can do without families is hopelessly obfuscated. Moreover, a challenging thesis is hidden: the thesis that it does not matter which social arrangements adults devise to bring up children. It is implied (rather than demonstrated) by calling single- parent households "families" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make Marriage Matter | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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