Word: keg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME[Aug. 20] rightly implies that the conflict in the Middle East is basically between Jewish lobby dollars and Arab oil wealth. Can any American politician risk alienating either? As long as the legitimate aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians are ignored, the Middle East will remain a powder keg...
...course it has to be seen in that context. But under the practical conditions at the time, the signing of that treaty had the perfectly foreseeable consequence of throwing a lighted match into a powder keg. That treaty came about when the Vietnamese army was substantially concentrated on the Cambodian frontier, so the treaty gave the Vietnamese reassurance against a Chinese reaction to their aggression in Cambodia. Now I happen to believe that the Cambodian government [of Pol Pot] was a group of genocidal murderers. But that was not why the Vietnamese went into Cambodia; they went in because...
...getting together on the streets after 9 p.m. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh helped restore order by bringing another 500,000 gal. of gas into the area and imposing a statewide odd-even purchase system. Said Bristol Town ship Police Chief Richard Templeton: "We're sitting on a powder keg...
Clifford, meanwhile, was practical. "This is great. I'm going home now to my keg and make love to it," he said...
Jones: We are sitting here, waiting on a powder keg. To sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane−it's going to be a catastrophe. It almost happened here when the Congressman was nearly killed here. [A cultist had attacked Ryan with a knife.] You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. [Some of the defectors were children whose parents had split on whether to flee or stay.] We've been so terribly betrayed...