Word: taciturn
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...dismissal by Dallas' new owner in 1989, Landry remained a silent, mournful football widower, reproachfully if silently carrying a torch for the team that moved on without him to further victories. At his firing, he shed public tears, which shocked an America that saw him as the faultlessly tailored, taciturn but brilliant sideline tactician. "Fireproof, bulletproof, emotionproof," the writer Pete Axthelm once said. Landry had a right to the tears. He had been coach since Dallas joined the NFL in 1960 and had nurtured the team from its winless first season through five Super Bowls and two world championships...