Word: taciturn
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...successful bidder, and the World-Herald's new proprietor, is Peter Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), 62, a spare, taciturn man who has spent all his working life in the construction business. Until just a few weeks ago, Kiewit's interest in the Omaha paper was simply that of a subscriber. But when he read an article about New Yorker Sam Newhouse's interest in Omaha, Kiewit decided to try to keep the outsider out. He was well-equipped...
Controversy is also expected over the election of a new Secretary General. Logical candidate for the job is Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral...
...eleven-story building of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., in downtown Melbourne, is stark and cheerless, almost down at the heels, by U.S. corporate standards. And its tenant is fusty and taciturn. But . B.H.P., as the 77-year-old steelmaker is known Down Under, has paced- and made possible-the galloping growth of Australian industry since World War II. In the process, it has become a sort of Australian version of A.T. & T., refuting the old dictum that basic industry in a democracy cannot be entrusted to a monopoly...
...occasion, small, taciturn Köthe Kollwitz could slip into melodrama, but the occasion was rare. She drew the unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another...
...actors, is the nation's largest producer of filmed television shows, leases a library of old movies for late-night TViewing, and last year grossed $82.4 million. It would be an antitrust epic, and the story line would be that MCA, bossed by tough, taciturn Lew Wasserman, 49, blankets competition by packaging its own talent into its own shows, grabs off 25% of prime TV time by presenting the networks with an all-or-nothing proposition. And what better title than Hollywood's own name for MCA, The Octopus...