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Word: keokuk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making a World Safe for Journalists | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making a World Safe for Journalists | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making a World Safe for Journalists | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Floe | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Floe | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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