Word: taciturn
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Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...
...find for the party-a taciturn, even secretive man, an awkward, fiery writer, a self-taught linguist who read and spoke German, French, Spanish and Italian. He wrote for the Daily Worker, became its foreign news editor, finally (while Cartoonist Robert Minor was listed at the top of the masthead) became its editor in fact. On the side he did translations. Two of his translations (from the German) were Franz Werfel's Class Reunion and Felix Salten's Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin's heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges...
Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
...Taciturn Louis St. Laurent acted as if nothing had happened. At his regular hour of 9:20 each morning last week, the man who had just been picked as national leader of the Liberal Party and who would take over as Prime Minister in a few months, showed up for work in the almost deserted Parliament Building. He read briefs from his External Affairs staff, conferred with colleagues, dictated answers to some of the 1,500 wires of congratulations he had received. There were few interruptions and few visitors. One evening Madame St. Laurent dropped by, and they strolled across...
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said...