Word: keg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East is not burning. It is not powder keg about to explode," he added...
...about the "dream tickets" that included his name, Lindsay quipped: "I do have bad dreams occasionally." But many Republicans were convinced that the mayor would jump at the second spot. "He has a good image now," noted a Rockefeller lieutenant, "but he knows he's sitting on a powder keg. Sooner or later, something is going to happen to make him look...
...consists of hopelessly inadequate "tribal colleges" which separate not only white from black, but tribe from tribe. The South African liberals who invited Curle's efforts shared his conviction that the system not only failed to educate blacks, but demoralized them needlessly. Curle in particular saw a powder keg in the situation. Resentment, and more important, the absence of educated black leadership, "would make it more likely that there would be an almost mindless outburst of violence," if and when blacks got the political power they deserve...
...Fusing the Powder Keg...
...expect Israel now to reconstruct the original powder keg that has exploded in her face three times in the past 20 years, sparked by the desire to blow her off the map, is the height of malicious folly. Yet this is what U.S.S.R.-U.A.R., Inc. proposes. Israel's new borders will have to be determined by its need for open and unchallenged life lines...