Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa, That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...mile trip usually takes six to ten days, depending on the traffic at the 26 locks and dams along the way. This time the floating entourage did not reach its destination. A sudden blast of arctic air froze sections of the Mississippi solid, trapping 'the barges near Keokuk, Iowa. Sighs Tom Michael, Cooperative Vanguard 's engineer: "Every time I look out, there's the same...
Once or twice a week, the crews unlash their towboats from the paralyzed herd of barges and bull through the ice into Keokuk (pop. 13,940). There they pick up cigarettes, toiletries, groceries, drinking water and mail, and make calls from the outdoor pay phone near the lockmaster's office. The rawboned Driver town is hardly humming (KEOKUK, HOME OF LORI FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas...