Word: taciturn
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After six weeks of reading about every deep breath and every bad pitch their baseball heroes had taken, the fans settled down to watch the real thing. This week the season was on. Even the Red Sox's taciturn Manager Joe McCarthy (TIME, April 5) broke silence: "The Yankees? Oh, yes, the Yankees. Well, I'll tell you. I believe this Cleveland club will be up there. They've got Feller, y'know." Another team to watch was the pitcher-rich Detroit Tigers...
...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...
...into the Sunday meeting. Like all Quaker meetings-for-worship, the liturgy-less silence may be broken by any worshiper who feels prompted by the "inner light" to. speak. Even the older, stalwart Lutheran Finns attend now; after coming for several weeks, they begin to speak, in their dry, taciturn way. Some of the campers are unhappy about this development; the totally silent meetings seemed the easiest answer to the 17 declensions of the Finnish language...
Married. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...