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Kennan

[ ken-uhn ]

noun

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


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Kennan was the legendary Cold War strategist who authored the doctrine of containment.

Kennan clearly thirsted to be among the common people wherever he found himself.

By that point, Kennan had been worrying about US-Russian relations for well over half a century.

Insecurities abounded, and Kennan, it seems, pretty much always had his knickers in a twist about something.

But then again, George Frost Kennan was a deeply introspective man.

When George Kennan heard this woman's story, his face became wet with tears almost for the first time since boyhood.

Cavalier he was to the extreme, and, after the briefest of inspection, he turned back to Villa Kennan.

Villa Kennan laughed too; and Jerry knew that these were a pair of happy gods, and himself laughed with them.

For Villa Kennan was quick to seize upon the howling her singing induced and to develop it.

Without rhyme or reason he was prepared to carry out his threat to kick Harley Kennan to death.

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