Kennan

[ken-uhn]

noun

1. George Frost, 1904–2005, U.S. author and diplomat.

Example Sentences

Jaron is a junior wide receiver and Kennan a junior safety.

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“In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind.”

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As I noted recently, Cold War liberalism had diverse tendencies, including George Kennan's Long Telegram, the initial defining document of the Cold War, in which he exhibited progressive aspirations and even praise for Scandinavian socialism.

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With no George Kennan to send a “long telegram,” which the then-diplomat to Moscow did in 1946, laying out Soviet intentions and urging the first strategy of containment, we’re left wondering about constructive steps forward.

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Mr. Blackwood also made films about subjects who were not artists, like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe and the diplomat George F. Kennan, and several about Germany and German Americans.

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