Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. Three years ago Ickes forced the City of San Francisco into court...
Three years ago, at 55, Tip Reynolds started a newspaper. Printed on a violent, near-red shade of newsprint, the Pink Reporter turned out to be a two-fisted, name-calling, muckraking fortnightly. Tip Reynolds first fell afoul of the law when he went after John E. Kennedy, secretary to ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell (who is now himself a "liberal" publisher). Charged with criminal libel, punishable in Montana by a $5,000 fine or a year in jail, Editor Reynolds hid out for a while in the hills, finally showed up, printed a retraction, and the charges were...
...early last year Adolf Hitler had already shown the world that his bag of tricks was not bottomless. Instead of winning another bloodless conquest in Poland, he ran his land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...