Word: taciturn
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...tracking down renegade operators FCC's monitor men meet espionage, sabotage and other subversive carryings-on, the only law the monitors can enforce (with the cooperation of local police) is the Communications Act. Incidental findings are turned over to FBI or to the Army or Navy Intelligence. Taciturn about their activities, the ether police talk for publication only about their wild-goose chases, most of which are started by hams, an extremely vigilant and patriotic...
...true measure of Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel...
...Friedrich E. Auhagen, former Columbia University professor, who was arrested as he was about to flee to Japan, had squealed, named taciturn, square-faced Drager as the mastermind. Dies Committee raids on German organization offices had produced confirming evidence...
...weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history of his record in office to present to the court...
...Taciturn son of humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...