Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Partial object of mining in or near an enemy's channels is to fill them with wreckage that will menace other ships. Last week on the British east coast, three small British ships ran fatally afoul of the sunken Canada...
Certainly the problem which most concerns the Blue coaching staff right now lies in the backfield. Not one member of the quartet which started against Harvard last fall is available. Had not Ray Anderson, a Junior, run afoul of scholastic ineligibility the outlook might be brighter. For Pond's chief need is what has come to be known since the invasion of Poland as a blitzkrieg back, and Anderson came near filling the bill in his brilliant appearances against Princeton and Harvard last Fall...
...sending you the true facts of the case, and a friendly warning to avoid running afoul of the other interested parties in this quadrilateral: namely, Professor Morison himself, and Mrs. Paul Hammond, a good sailor, too, who planned the larder for the expedition, and accompanies...
Shortly after the war started se४r Barriobero became the presiding judge of the anarchists' revolutionary "People's Tribunal" in Barcelona, where he prided himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the fines he collected, was finally imprisoned in a hospital. Three weeks ago, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops took Barcelona, se४r Barriobero remained behind, of his own volition. Last week, a broken, stoop-shouldered, tired old man, he was tried before a military tribunal in the same court...
Some of the books were out of print, or not in English- ". . . the college . . . had run afoul of its first big snag." Unexpectedly? Hardly. The faculty contains competent scholars; we hire the printers; no snags to date...