Word: twain
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...slowly setting behind me as my campaign paddle wheeler, the Mark Twain, steams into port in Hannibal, Missouri - the final stop on a nearly 400-mile trek down the Mississippi River. As you know from your own trip down this great waterway (captured in a recent special issue of TIME magazine), life on the Mississippi is nothing short of spectacular...
...mail, and is a touch-typist. ("Remember, he's a former reporter," one staffer reminds me, which in fact did nothing to reassure me at the time. I've been in newsrooms. I've seen journalists both hunting and pecking.) He "banged it out" sitting atop the Mark Twain riverboat on a gray and sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting...
Gore quoted another Connecticut native, Mark Twain, when explaining why he chose Lieberman, saying, "Do the right thing: It will gratify your friends and astonish your enemies...
Your Mississippi River stories naturally call Mark Twain to mind. While he couldn't predict the future of the river, he was right on target about the future of politics in America. More than 100 years ago, he observed, "We have the finest Congress money can buy." Like the Mississippi, the more things change, the more they stay the same." SID ESTEROWITZ New York City...
...East Moline, Ill. He spent his summers as a teenager diving for freshwater mussels with his father and selling the iridescent shells to the Japanese cultured-pearl industry. To save money, the pair camped out on islands and beaches, living a fresh-air, idyllic life straight out of Mark Twain. By the time he started college though, Pregracke had come to see the river differently--not as a source of income and diversion but as a threatened, fragile living creature that needed his help. Crawling on the weedy bottom in his search for shells, attached by a hose...