Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tested against that provision alone, it is possible that more than 30% of the treaties made by the U.S. since 1789 might be ruled invalid. Our basic treaties of friendship and commerce, our consular conventions, extradition treaties, migratory bird treaties, road traffic conventions and narcotics control treaties might run afoul of the new wording. In any event, their validity might be put under a cloud for a number of years. These treaties are the lifeblood of our relationships with other friendly nations. They deal-and must continue to deal-with matters which are constitutionally reserved to the states...
...camp, oil leases and (through his wife) a truck leasing company called Test Fleet, Inc. (Test Fleet, unsurprisingly, enjoyed excellent labor relations, and in four years paid dividends of more than $60,000 on an original investment of $4,000.) Between his professional and personal activities, Hoffa has run afoul of the law more times than he or anyone else can remember. Says he: "I got a list of arrests maybe as long as your...
...story is as old as reveille. In a prewar barracks town, Gunner Asch and his friend Vierbein run afoul of discipline and authority in an artillery battery. The trouble with Vierbein is that the mere sight of a corporal or a sergeant is enough to reduce him to terrified obedience. He is an unsoldierly-looking fellow with a built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt...
Sailstad did announce, however, that Yardlings should be prepared to pay an undetermined amount to see this year's entertainment. As usual, the committee may run afoul of the Cambridge Liquor Licensing Board--this time over selling alcoholic beverages to minors. The Board has no objections to drinks being given away, it is understood...
...persuaded Robert Frost to come to Chicago to read his poetry as a prelude to a $50-a-plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed...