Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving Cash-and-Carry a private course in flower arrangement, is outraged, and so is Pi. The lovers escape on a passing junk, but fall afoul of pirates...
Once more Hammarskjold had taken the initiative to get the U.N. "presence" felt without running the risk of a Security Council veto or running afoul of the General Assembly's volatile political alignments. Hammarskjold himself likes to talk of the necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international...
...latest issue of Identity Poetry may have run afoul of the city's censorship laws banning "publishing obscene and indecent pictures," according to Lieutenant Detective Frederick Marckini of the Cambridge police...
...crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel...
...grows up in 16th century Germany in the company of an angel, but loses her impulse to sainthood when she decides that she wants to be his mate. The angel disappears in an angry burst of flame, and Renata keeps looking for him until she at last runs afoul of the Inquisition and is sentenced to death at the stake. Part of the fascination of this murky Gothic tale is that most of it exists in Renata's own mind, and much of the opera remains perilously poised between tragedy and low farce...