Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standing between the sophomore All-State Michigan forward and future All-Ivy berths is a hefty dose of confidence. Jenkins has changed from a former consistency to mercurial play. Silver, the pillar of the Harvard offense for so long this year, looks to be crumbling, and the guards, save Ken Wolfe, perform spasmodically...
...Ken" Jamieson is a product of the rough-and-tumble earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took...
...engineering background, he was made manager of a refinery in Moose Jaw, Sask., the first of a remarkable series of jobs that during the next 30 years put him into every facet of the petroleum business. During World War II, big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), craggy-faced Ken Jamieson was appointed an Ottawa-based oil liaison officer between the Canadian and U.S. Governments. When peace came, Imperial Oil Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil (New Jersey), made him a lucrative offer, and he accepted even though he had reservations about "just ending up in the back office...
...more satisfying than being upset at economics or politics or the way nature doles out its resources." He manages, however, to keep a-sense of humor. In Detroit, one questioner asked him if "considering all that has happened, would it not have been better to retain the name Humble?" Ken Jamieson reared back and laughed...
...stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...