"You just feel it's a powder keg in Quartzsite, and something is going to set it off, " said Shelly Baker, recorder for La Paz County.

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Sadly, there are no photos of my grandmother doing a keg stand in existence (that I know of).

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For the survivors, further social disruptions and the loss of jobs as stockmen (or cowboys) made for a powder keg waiting to explode in the 1990s.

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It also has a built-in beer keg.

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Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

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The diplomatic powder-keg was not all that exploded in July 1914.

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They said he claimed an empty beer keg had been used by intruders to get in through a window.

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As tension between the US and EU and Iran heats up, as a tenuous peace dialogue plods along in the Middle East, and as the withdrawal from Iraq continues, a state stuck in between these conflicts with unclear alliances can be a powder keg, unless Brussels changes its mind.

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Worthington E became a best-selling beer for Bass in the 1970s, when it saw widespread distribution as a filtered and pasteurised keg bitter.

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But as long as those living in and around the region watch its conflicts from starkly opposing viewpoints, the old powder-keg will retain every speck of its explosive power.

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