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
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
Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
"It's a powder keg now and we need to get something done and we need the Home Office to listen," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Takes me another hour or so to locate a keg that looks the right size.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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
One day when Nathan Queeley-Dennis was supposed to be busy lugging beer kegs in the cellar of the pub where he worked, he was instead writing his first script on his phone.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
Here there were dead office towers, brought to life at night by restaurants buried within that served small kegs of beer and Korean fried chicken.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
