Word: afoul
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Ingraham himself has since run afoul of the law and is currently serving a one-year jail term for resisting arrest. His case will scarcely end the centuries-old debate over whether sense can-or should-be beaten into schoolchildren. Despite psychiatric evidence that the practice is harmful and ineffective, advocates of the paddle see it as a simple instrument of law and order, and some of them swear by Proverbs 23: 14 -"Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Where local laws and customs do not prohibit paddling, misbehaving students will continue...
...bankers cite the energy savings as an important plus. The few contractor-built domes that have been resold have brought high prices. The manufacturers claim that dome builders have no trouble getting building permits. Ironically, say the Cathedralite owners, the only city where their earthquake-resistant dwellings have run afoul of local building and safety requirements is Los Angeles...
...that literary liberals so often try to make romantic martyrs out of people they feel compelled to defend? Take Larry Flynt, whose sleazy porn magazine Hustler has run afoul of a Cincinnati obscenity prosecution in a way that does outrageous violence to press freedom. A full-page ad in the New York Times, signed by, among others, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean, wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times...
...wonders with the Jewish vote) by his spectacular stands in defense of Israel and in defiance of left-wing totalitarian assaults on the West. But he argues that he told President Ford he planned to stay on, and that he would have remained had he not fallen afoul of Henry Kissinger, who disapproved of his too independent line. After resigning from his U.N. post, Moynihan returned to Harvard, where for four months he pondered a political run. Centrist party leaders courted Moynihan for two reasons: they thought he was best able to retire Buckley and enrich New York...
Last week, as Thailand held parliamentary elections, life exceeded reel politics. Kukrit, 65, Thailand's Prime Minister for the past year, was upset in a bid for reelection. A major reason for his loss was that once again he had run afoul of Americans. This time the issue was the U.S. military presence in Thailand. To improve relations with Thailand's two Communist neighbors-Laos and Cambodia-and reduce protests from Thai leftists, Kukrit last month ordered the U.S. to close its bases and trim personnel from the present 3,500 (down from 49,500 at the height...