Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup by smuggling, but fell afoul of the law and paid a heavy fine. He carried off the family treasures to pawn or sell. Once he was reduced to selling lollipops to vacationing suckers at a seaside resort...
...public to drink more milk-before it becomes butter. But with the carefully protected high price of milk, such a program would be foredoomed too, unless the Government could somehow make milk cheaper by reducing the middleman's profits. And right there Secretary Benson would run afoul of private enterprise...
Students who waited a day before buying their books this year ran afoul of the Coop's policy of Never Be Caught with a Large Inventory. They are still waiting. Other Square bookstores bow to the same doctrine, but their proportion of the required text business is so small they cannot afford to duck...
...abustle with expectation of Christmas in New York. The passengers tripped ashore, most of them worrying about nothing more serious than whether Customs would find that extra bottle of Arpege cached in the shaving kit. But 271 members of the crew were held on board. Reason: they had run afoul of the new McCarran Walter Immigration law which went into effect at midnight...
...Grey-Eyed People (by John D. Hess) was a two-tone play whose colors brutally clashed. It told of a suburban individualist who staged a hot-tempered crusade on behalf of a former Communist who ran afoul of the community. Part of the time the author-a veteran TV writer-seemed concerned with a pressing contemporary situation. The rest of the time he merely seemed concerned with what it could yield in laughs...