Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working in a print shop in Keokuk, Iowa, is dazzled by a book about exploring the Amazon, by a ship captain named William Lewis Herndon. The kid, who is fizzing with light-out-for-the- territory restlessness, quits his job and hops a steamer for New Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named...
...avoided the draft in the Vietnam War (he apologized in a Journal column), hurl shame, through his boss, the wounded old soldier, at Clinton's draft dodging? (Helprin apparently did serve a year in the Israeli armed forces, but explaining this to a Chamber of Commerce audience in Keokuk, Iowa, could be complicated.) Dole's people seem to like the idea of more Helprin speeches. Which could leave the Democrats, searching nervously for something to worry about in this ominously optimistic season, a little troubled...
...will flow into the St. Croix River, to the Mississippi, south to an aqueduct at Keokuk, Iowa, and from there west to the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon and many other southwestern canyons, filling them up to the rims--enough water to supply the parched Southwest from Los Angeles to Santa Fe for more than 50 years...
...Midwest's best political reporter, David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register, is poised and waiting for the first 1992 Democratic presidential prospector to jet across the Mississippi into Keokuk or come stealthily by Hertz into Council Bluffs. His early-warning network, tuned to the Iowa caucuses that will kick off the next presidential season two years from now, is unerring...