Word: taciturnity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul Rapier Richards, manager of the Chicago White Sox, can be as sharp-tongued as his middle name, as taciturn as a Texas cowpoke, or as cajoling as a pressagent. It all depends on the temperament of the player Richards is trying to rouse to top performance. In 1951, by a combination of wheedling and browbeating, Freshman Manager Richards brought his baseball team to a fourth-place finish (from sixth in 1950). Last year the White Sox finished third, and this year, after a winter of rebuilding and trading, Manager Richards announces: "Our goal is the top." This...
Handle with Care. Howe's scoring prowess, by his own taciturn admission, stems partly from constant study of rival goalies' weaknesses: "You vary your shots with the goalie-high for McNeil of Montreal, on the ice against Henry of Boston." But Howe's main scoring assets are a pair of powerful wrists (strengthened by summertime golf and softball), an ability to shoot from either side, and the shifty knack of disguising his intentions. Charging into an opponent's zone, Howe has been known to ward off a defenseman with one elbow and still...
Three men made the settlement possible: Naguib, Stevenson, and the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jefferson Caffery. Taciturn, levelheaded, 66-year-old Caffery, dean of the U.S. Foreign Service (he was chief of a mission back in Hoover's Administration), was the honest broker for the great diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...
...French liner Champollion plowed through the squally eastern Mediterranean one day last week on course for Beirut, capital of Lebanon. Aboard were 111 passengers, most of them Christmas pilgrims bound for the Holy Land, and 212 crewmen skippered by Captain Henri Bourde, a taciturn French salt who knows the Levantine seas like the back of his gnarly hand...
...offer to try out as a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He settled instead for a professional football contract with the Washington Redskins. Owner George Preston Marshall introduced his new star to reporters by dressing him up in a cowboy outfit, from Stetson to high-heeled boots. Taciturn Sam answered questions in monosyllables. His most notable remark: "Mah feet hurt...