Word: taciturn
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...more on the Coe-Ovett matchup. Relations between the two are chilly, perhaps because they are so different. The affable, talkative Coe is the people's choice. A 5-ft. 9¼-in., 129-lb. bantam, Coe emphasizes speed over endurance in his training. Ovett is intense and taciturn, especially with the press. He does little but eat, sleep and train; in an average week he will turn in 160 or more miles in contrast to Coe's 50 to 70. After he shattered Coe's mile mark, however, Ovett did permit himself a rare moment...
...snow slowly crept into the huge stadium where fans will sit to watch the start and finish of cross-country and biathlon events, the taciturn Fletcher smiled. "It was a big job, but we did it." The British biathlon team manager offered a more eloquent summation: "When you think of it, it's a modern miracle. They've made all the snow for an Olympic Games...
make him the darling of the European sporting press. To the chagrin of journalists, however, he is taciturn, bordering on withdrawn. "Sometimes the whole business is too much for me," he admits. "Only skiing calms...
...from events abroad." Solomon chose to leave his Treasury job in part because of his growing exasperation with Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, whose easy and loose-talking style contrasts sharply with Solomon's intensity and circumspection. At his first press conference since being named, he showed his taciturn style by refusing comment on routine questions. Both to stem inflation and to strengthen the dollar, Solomon favors high interest rates and slow growth in credit...
Still, Herman has not come back from the Front; he is believed dead. Then one day, as Maria and Bill are about to dive into bed, Heman materializes in the bedroom doorway. Lowitsch, iron-jawed, taciturn, renders the strange tableau one of the most powerful scenes in the movie. He tussels with the black soldier, and Maria clobbers Bill--fatally--with a bottle...