Word: keg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genial Dick Harlow, famed expenent of the spinuer cycle offense, is sitting on a keg of dynamite in Cambridge this fall. He must fact a suicide schedule with but an uncertain crop of Junior gridders, victims of an acute attack of jitters in the objective Eli game last November...
...Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer keg...
Having met Mr. Paul many times at the offices of Random House, our mutual publishers, I can also state that he is not as barrel-shaped as his pictures show. He is really a small man-who, if you must coin an image around, would be keg-shaped...
...Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis are slaughtered. This...