Word: taciturnity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last October, Khokhlov was summoned to the headquarters of MVD's grim Ninth Otdel, the "terror and diversion" section now under the direct supervision of taciturn Alexander Panyushkin, onetime (1947-52) Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. He was told to proceed to Frankfurt, there to assassinate one Georgi Okolovich, a big shot in the right-wing Russian expatriate organization, NTS, whose Berlin director, Dr. Alexander Trushnovich, was brutally abducted from West Berlin by Communists a fortnight ago (TIME, April 26). Khokhlov said that he went home to talk the matter over with his wife, and both decided that...
Last week the word leaked out that slim, taciturn Audrey Harper has been working as a clerk-typist at Field's since mid-July as the store's first Negro employee (Dowdy was not hired), and that five other Negroes had followed her on the payroll. Mrs. Harper, 26, a high-school graduate with three years of business-school training, said: "It's a great achievement for Negroes, but I don't think it's anything to talk about too much. Fuss makes trouble, not progress...
Biggest to fall was Foreign Minister Pak Hong Wong, a Vice Premier, who has already been replaced by a face familiar to Westerners: taciturn General Nam II, the ex-schoolteacher turned military dandy, who was the Reds' chief truce negotiator. The Communist radio last week accused ex-Foreign Minister Pak of complicity in the plot. Pak, party member since 1920, onetime party secretary and onetime student at Moscow's Lenin University, was not among those tried. His time may come later...
Among the hundreds of German and Austrian Communists who went to Spain in the '30s to fight in the civil war, the man to fear most was a taciturn, cold-eyed German named Walter Ulbricht. In Albacete, far behind the Republican lines, Special Agent Ulbricht set up a German section of the OGPU and, on Moscow's orders, proceeded to rid the Communist ranks of Trotskyites. For those special cases which did not respond to the lash, the pliers, the hot wires and the other accepted tools of his craft, Ulbricht fashioned a tiny cell of granite blocks...
Almost lost in the shuffle, but never far from anyone's mind, was Ben Hogan himself. The taciturn Texan, with eleven sub-par practice rounds under his belt, spent the final day of practice just puttering around the putting green. Admitting he was "in grand shape" (he had not played a major tournament in ten months), Hogan made one prediction: the tournament scoring record-279-would be broken. All Ben failed to say was that he would take care of the record-breaking himself...