Word: taciturn
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...Taciturn captains prophesied wrecks and disaster. They called the change unnecessary, costly, illogical, insane? the work of professors and astronomers...
...unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest in native languages, in intelligent natural history, exceeded ours." Sir Harry's is a taciturn account of that combination of exploitation, good government and scientific inquiry which solemnly carried the British flag around the world...
Books are not, in a sense, taciturn. A quite simple gesture may suffice to bring forth a perfect volume of verbosity from the most unassuming. But they are at a disadvantage. A book is quite incapable of button holing you. At any moment it may be reduced to completely submissive silence by the reader's merely turn ing away his head. But does all this reticence imply a Spartan fortitude, hiding intolerable pain...
...conference useless, as at least a six-year moratorium of reparation payments must be granted to Germany. Furthermore, French insistence on keeping the Ruhr problem entirely out-side the orbit of the conference was understood to have been another factor unacceptable to the U. S. Government. President Coolidge ("the taciturn") described the conference as restricted by the French as " wholly futile and useless." Secretary Hughes said that an inquiry under such terms would be reduced to a mere "audit." Although the door was left open to France in case Premier Poincaré withdrew from his position, such an eventuality...
...meager, mysterious, ubiquitous and taciturn Colonel Edward M. House, about to leave on his annual trip to Europe, is credited with being commander-in-chief of a campaign to make John W. Davis the next Democratic Presidential nominee...