Word: knesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three minutes into the new period, Northeastern connected again, as Co-Captain Michelle Surette went one on one with Kimmel and drove the puck between the goalie's kness...
...start the Beat Generation as the real Kerouac must have. Torn between the genteel sobriety of California suburbia and literary fame as a New York author, Kerouac compromised and died an alcoholic wimp in Florida. We last see him warming in the sun, a camp blanket tossed across his kness as if he were a suburban Ezra Pound who had anticipated his usefulness or outlived his youthfulness and was only good for gardening, pushing down daisies...
...factory in an old barn. Five railroads then intersected in town, making it a likely place for manufacturing. (Other captains of industry did not flock to Albia, however, and two of the railroads are now gone.) When orders were down, as they often were, the Knesses built houses. They farmed and did some landscaping. They installed toilets and dug septic tanks. They fixed almost any machine that needed fixing. Up through the mid-1960s sales stayed consistently mediocre. Then the Federal Government began restricting the use of poisons for pest control around food. Emerson looked down from the heavens...
That new factory is one of the few signs of Kness prosperity. Members of the clan do not build big houses or take trips to Europe. A "good time" is still defined as a fishing trip or a full bag of quail at the end of a day's hunting. When the three brothers decided to pull out of the company's day-to-day operations, they briefly considered hiring a general manager...
...Kness rule, "No advice unless someone asks for it," is balanced by "Every decision is unanimous." Each Monday at 9 a.m., the three meet to report their activities and make plans. "We keep each other in check by asking questions," Russ says. Keeping an eye on all three is Gerry Mosbey, 46, a mousetrap maker for 25 years who has an equal voice in the management. Mosbey will become part of the family soon. Kerry is engaged to his daughter Rhonda...