Word: keg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jinx left, there was a mad stampede toward the Common Room and beer. One table and innumerable spectators were trampled in the dust. One intelligent Yardling came fortified with peach brandy; while about 25 others joined in kidapping a whole keg of brew...
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U.P.)--Japan is sitting on a huge powder keg whose tremendous forces could wreak more destruction throughout the island empire than all the bombing planes in the world, according to Dr. Helmut Landsberg, University of Chicago seismologist...
...compunction about spooning the aggressors full of the same bitter medicine Hitler is prescribing today. Yet in the long run, Americans have no interest in a policy of revenge. The eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-tooth principle of justice will add explosive to a future European powder-keg, and our only permanent interest in Europe is peace. The one nation distant enough and strong enough to enforce a just peace is the United States, and we have committed ourselves to a program the practical result of which is domination and whose eventual outcome may be yet another...
Colored movies of whitewater canoeing and skiing on Mount Moosilauke will feature the Outing Club's open meeting tonight at 8:00 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. Doughnuts and a keg of cider are promised...
Observing caustically that "with Burma sitting on a powder keg herself, I see no reason why she should take money at the expense of a potential military ally," at week's end he had goaded Whitehall authorities into making "urgent" official representations to semi-autonomous Burma, suggesting immediate lifting...