Word: waylay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked quickly, running whenever she could. As she passed through neighborhoods, undoubtedly cutting a bizarre figure, there were other attempts to waylay her. She escaped. Soon she reached the city limits, with the countryside just ahead. Breathless and weary, she sped down the road. Suddenly rough hands seized her from behind and pinned her down. With all her might she struggled to break away but failed. "I'm being kidnapped!" she screamed over and over again at the top of her lungs. That was in vain, for beyond the city limits there was no one to hear...
...cops are too late so I figure they won't mind if I waylay them with a few questions. They're reticent talkers. About six months ago the department assigned the highest percentage of plain-clothes officers in the city to the Combat Zone. The commander of vice, John Doyle, handles inquiries into the reasons for this policy. But they tell me that all you really need to know about the Zone is that it's a dangerous place, and you shouldn't be nosing around in it. It becomes clear to me that of all zones--parcel post, erogenous...
After a while, I developed a strategy designed for disarmament. I would scout out each new face for insecurity blemishes. And I'd play up to that particualr lack of confidence in a seductive effort to waylay its defensive instinct. I would, in other words, convince them that I was unworthy of their attack, that I was harmless. At first this meant telling funny stories at the dinner table about the various fuck-ups in my private life: about being paralyzed with fear when a beautiful sailor tried to seduce me; about trying, bravely in the now or never spirit...
...Newman's daughter), lost to her out of a love for biology. With slatternly hair and frowsy bathrobe, Beatrice drags out her days on too much coffee and too many cigarettes, reading the want ads and trying to sell dance tickets on the phone. She wisecracks non-stop to waylay despair, but her sense of humor has gone sour and grates on even her daughters...
...Joel Grey's decadent host in Cabaret and vaudeville's old-fashioned song-and-dance man. His eyes dance, roll, and turn somersaults in an amused self-parody, but they are too bright to be decadent and too playful to be evil. He tries to tempt and waylay Pippin, the show's Candide-like hero, but it is obvious that he is having too much fun to take the devil business seriously. "It began as a very small part," says Pippin's Director Bob Fosse. "It was invented as it went along, and it kept growing...