keg
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In 1768 King George III filled Boston with armed troops, creating a powder keg; in two years the spark of a single rifle shot would explode the Boston Massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Witless doesn’t even begin to describe celebrating those who are willing to fall down a hill for a keg of not very good beer at a wedding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
On Monday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described the situation as a "powder keg".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
The career soldier, who in 2021 collaborated with Daglo to oust civilians from a transitional government, wrote on Wednesday: "I long recognised that the RSF was a powder keg."
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
They could hear him moving lumber and boxes about and he came back upstairs with a five-gallon oak keg in his arms.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Is the U.S. now a nation that sings like Argentina, rows like Norway and punishes beer kegs like the thirsty Scottish Tartan Army?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
To prepare for Thursday’s night’s match against Tunisia, Wallingford had 35 kegs of beer cooling and 400 croquettes—a Dutch fried snack—shipped from out of town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
One of the most valuable assets owned by Lancaster University is stored in beer kegs.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
In a carefully locked laboratory rows of metal kegs are arranged on shelves and linked together with spindly copper pipework.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
She could see the Assassin out of the corner of her eye, running beside her as they dodged through the throng, narrowly avoiding pull-carts and men rolling kegs across the wooden planks.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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