Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
...Honor. Some were inclined to blame the honor system rather than the students. "Its chief weakness," said Dean Henry G. Doyle of George Washington University, "is that every man pledges himself to be guard not only of his own honor, but of that of his fellows. This immediately runs afoul of the tradition against the tattle-tale." Added Manhattan Psychiatrist Marion Kenworthy, "We older persons . . . are as responsible as the students when we create psychological temptations...
...Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad...
This time the glamorous lady in distress is not Ingrid Bergman but Marta Toren, playing the disenchanted mistress of an idealistic French colonel (Lee J. Cobb), and the scene is Damascus in 1925 under the cloud of bitter French-Syrian warfare. Gun-Runner Bogart runs afoul of Colonel Cobb in both love & war, while a murky gallery of black marketeers, informers and Arabian fanatics (Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, et al.) snuffles ominously through the background...
Plans of the athletic directors of eastern schools to control carefully television and radio broadcasts of college football games may fall afoul of federal anti-trust statutes...