Word: tinderbox
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...surefootedly on these fundamentals of security to dampen the flash points of potential outbreak. Specifically, he set about 1) making plain to the world in the forum of the U.N. that Communism had again shown itself morally bankrupt after the barbarous suppression of satellite independence; 2) stopping the Egypt tinderbox fighting before the Russians had the chance and the time to pour in "volunteers...
...world's last flint knapper and used to be famous for its flints which were exported to all parts of the world. Flints are still exported from Brandon to the U.S. for flintlock guns (some years ago a request was received from an Eskimo for flints for his tinderbox) and to West Africa for the same purpose. Sadly enough, the craft is rapidly dying out, and mining ceased with the death of the last flint miner some years...
Sparks were dropping thick & fast around the Iran tinderbox. If the British land troops in Iran, the Russians might well invoke the Treaty of 1921* and come across the border from the north...
Sure enough, white men came-but not looking for trouble. The police chief and three patrolmen ventured to look over the tinderbox Mink Slide district. A panicky Negro opened fire. For an instant, Mink Slide was loud with gunfire. All four policemen were hit by buckshot...
...hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such...