Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page 94 (TIME, Oct 5) is a sum of "The Strange Case of J. H. Phillips." By veiled implication, "Dr. Phillips" is puffed as a very competent surgeon who had the misfortune to run afoul of the license laws in California. It is likewise stated that the "A.M.A. Journal printed [his record] with reluctant admiration...
During many of these escapades they ran afoul of "Colonel" Charles R. Apted, for many years kindly head of the Yard Cops, who was a personal friend of many well-known graduates. His experiences could fill a book--and nearly did; though the volume has never officially been published...
...anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...
...this particular picture should have run afoul of the Legion of Decency, a Catholic organization which exercises the prerogative of deciding what pictures are fit for Catholic consumption, is best known to the Legion. The Legion decided that Two-Faced Woman was "immoral" (TIME...
...long-term plans to dehydrate the capital structures of bankrupt railroads last week ran afoul of the Treasury's plans to wring more taxes from industry. Chairman John Samuel Pyeatt of the Missouri Pacific Railroad-in receivership since 1933-sent a letter to 40,000 bondholders, urged them to reject the ICC-sponsored reorganization plan...