Word: waylay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love with one of the peasants and he with her. Father Nicola renounces the traditional vengeance, but there is more violence, including 'castration...
...mothers' heads and drive the most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven boys waylay Dadier in an alley and beat, kick and gouge him into insensibility. The horny-handed principal and the cynical older instructors are no help to Rick Dadier in his attempts to awaken his pupils' bored, backward minds. When one boy pulls a knife on him, Dadier fights furiously, gets...