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Word: keokuk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, M.D., 68, who practiced for 44 years in Farmington, Iowa, received a gold medal last autumn as the American Medical Association's General Practitioner of the Year (TIME, Dec. 15); of a heart attack; in Keokuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Weathermen are getting the first really worldwide picture of the atmosphere's circulation. U.S. Weather Bureau scientists drifting on the Arctic ice keep track of winds and pressure changes that will affect the weather of Keokuk and Odessa. Their colleagues at the South Pole do the same for the Antarctic. Already their reports have improved weather forecasting for the Southern Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Look at Man's Planet | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Perfectionist. In Keokuk, Iowa, after Service Station Attendant Dewayne Gray, 22, serviced a customer's car, getting it in tiptop shape, he grabbed $229 from the cash register, climbed into the car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Wishful Drinking. In Keokuk, Iowa, Wilbur Damon, 27, was sentenced to three days in jail after he phoned police from a saloon, asked the cop who arrived to go tell his wife that he was sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money nor sex ever appealed to her. After a half-hour chat with Sigmund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Girl from Keokuk | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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