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Ken.

abbr.
Kentucky
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Ken.

abbreviation for
(Placename) Kentucky
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And then the police gathered them in and they vanished from our ken. Sometimes I visited them behind the bars and said good-bye ere they journeyed across the bay to put on the felon's stripes.
I's jest gwine to camp down, and sleep while I ken."
Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.
Chris said: "Reaching three score and 40 years is an amazing achievement and I'm delighted, on behalf of the Insurance Institute of Leicester, to celebrate the event with Ken."
"Then one day, out of the blue, my next door neighbour came to see me and said 'how do I go about donating a kidney to you, Ken.'" He added: "I just broke down crying.
Nesbitt was on each occasion told the GoK will provide any necessary drugs to Ken. Nesbitt told me how on several occasions he tried to reason with Mwongera to see the packet of drugs he sought to pass on to Ken was 'unopened', but he was unsuccessful.
The play pattern is that for every six to eight Barbies [a child] has, they generally have one Ken. So if you have a Ken kids aren't interested in, that could affect sales.
I found the courage to ask her if she had a boyfriend and she told me she didn't," said Ken.
"When I went to play for Juventus in Italy, I became even more grateful to Ken. I'm quite a private person and he acted as a barrier.
I'm delighted to be part of Google's journey in the Philippines, helping to bring tools and products that make a meaningful impact in people's lives and enabling businesses to make the most of the Internet to grow their enterprise," said Ken.