Word: taciturn
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Tough writers are seldom tough guys, but Alexander Fadeyev was an exception. His early novels are Russian-style westerns, full of galloping hooves and gun battles against terrible odds, simple taciturn heroes who figure that the only way to give an order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...
...thinning grey hair is worn at ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe...
...began a series of weekly consultations with William Gleason, a social worker and former (1938) halfback for the University of Washington, who regularly consulted with Dr. Edith Buxbaum, a psychoanalyst attached to the center. At first the interviews were unproductive; Jim missed many, or showed up hostile and taciturn for others. But the counselors steadily broke down his resistance over a six-month period by treating him as an adult and convincing him that they would not violate his confidences. Then the disturbing tale of Jim's life began to come to light...
...publicity-conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
...Taciturn Don Mueller, always a power at the plate, inched up steadily on Mays and Snider all summer, pushed his total of base hits past the 200 mark-the first Giant to turn the trick since Jo-Jo Moore in 1936. A quiet, conscientious competitor, Mueller got so heated up by his team's pennant fight that he managed to set a record of sorts of his own: last month, for the first time in eleven years of organized baseball, he yammered at an umpire loudly enough to get himself tossed out of a game...