Word: waylay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timid soul describes lurking outside Liggett's to waylay friends and send them on forays into the interior. Other and bolder spirits relate tales of subtle ingenuity that do more striking credit to the Crimson name...
Saddest of all in food-loving, fun-loving Manipur today are the maids of marriageable age. When no war threatens and the moon is right, custom lets them waylay young men, strip and hold them until they pay the price demanded. If the victim demurs, they may lock him up until he changes his mind. When next the moon is right, no men will be on hand to play-if they heed the Maharaja's call...
Cape Town, busy, crowded tavern of the seas, is plagued by young mulatto hoodlums who work in gangs and are called skollies. Between 1939 and 1942, operations of the skollies caused a notable increase of murders, assaults and rapes. Sometimes using colored girls for decoys, skollies waylay and rob British and American servicemen...