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Kennan   /kˈɛnən/   Listen
Kennan

noun
1.
United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (1904-2005).  Synonyms: George F. Kennan, George Frost Kennan.



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"Kennan" Quotes from Famous Books



... want. They eat his meat and pick his bones, and not only devour the meat, but the stomach, entrails, and their contents. When they stew the mass of meat and half digested moss, the stench is disgusting. Captain Kennan told me that when he arrived among the Koriaks the peculiar odor made him ill, and he slept out of doors with the thermometer at -35 deg. rather than enter a tent where cooking was ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox



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