Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decades to Go. Authorization center of this new Navajo nationalism is the Tribal Council, which tends to be run by two powerful figures (many of the rest cannot speak English): Chairman Paul Jones and Executive Secretary J. Maurice McCabe. Jones, a taciturn, white-thatched Indian, is a high school graduate. McCabe, a business-college graduate, is a go-getter who, like Jones, is widely respected by businessmen who deal with the tribe...
...outset, Donner aimed to set me straight on what he considers wrong impressions spread about him in news articles since he was promoted to chairman: "I am not taciturn, I am not shy. I am not afraid of people, and I don't even own a slide rule. People build up an image of a financial man that has no relation to reality. It will take a little time to get across the true picture...
...characters themselves, however, are quite faithful to the book. Gary Cooper is taciturn and determined as the Montana college professor who comes to Spain to dynamite a bridge for the faltering Republic. Miss Bergman is tender and convincing as the young camp girl, though she seemed a bit too well-scrubbed and Nordic for the Spanish locale...
Lawyer Taft's explanation was that his taciturn tactics were aimed not at O'Neill but at Hamilton County G.O.P. regulars with whom he has intermittently sparred since a Taft-led 1924 reform government took over Cincinnati, with reform-minded Charlie Taft later becoming county attorney. When Taft filed for governor, the county organization ordered a rousing anti-Taft vote "to show what Hamilton County Republicans really think of Charles P. Taft." To show what he really thought of the organization and presumably to protect his prestige in future elections, seven-term Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft...
...chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented his country at international conferences in Europe and America...