Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone plays boisterous games (though not everyone tosses beer kegs out the window--if you feel the urge, make sure the keg is empty, and the window open). Stereos are rarely played softly; there are, truth be told, very few Mantovani afficionados here. And "noisy or disorderly occupants of a room in a dormitory under University supervision" are very rarely, if ever dismissed. A few years ago, some Kirkland House students built a disco dance floor in their room, complete with strobes and turbo-charged stereos. Every night, they danced. all through the fall semester, even though their dance floor...
...whether they got their first choices or not, most students tried to make the best of it. Some students sported badges reading "Kiss me; I'm going to the Quad." And some future North House residents spent the evening at a keg-party in their new dorm...
Restauranteur Silky Sullivan opened Memphis' Fifth Annual St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl with the traditional "blessing of the keg." After the "blessing," a hoard of Irishmen, in spirit if not in fact, marched two miles from downtown Memphis to Overton Square, stopping at 19 bars and pubs along the way. Following the marchers was a truck with outside spigots--ready to provide beer between stops...
...much as $570 billion from the world's oil-thirsty economies. Hardest hit will be the less developed countries. With their credit lines stretched to the snapping point, the LDCs may need $70 billion more than international banks are like ly to provide. Result: a potentially smoldering powder keg of political unrest in the Third World...
...property where 25 badly corroded drums of chlorosilane had been stored next to 100 bbl. of flammable solvents. Rain soaking the chlorosilane created a smoky chemical reaction. Fear of an explosion caused city officials to order the area vacated for several hours. Says Vance: "We had a 13-acre keg of dynamite." Firemen rushed to separate the drums. Now, Vance frets, "every time we have a thunderstorm I think, 'My God, don't let lightning hit out there...