Word: taciturnity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delfino's cowboy boots are old and scuffed. His Stetson is sweat stained, and his jeans are dirty from the hard labor of running his family's $10 million cattle, farming and packing business in California. He is a taciturn, hard-bitten cowpoke, but he has the U.S. livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more...
...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...
...series of moving recitatives, Meneghini last week poured out the story: "The sea was choppy. I was ill. My wife was in one of her morose, taciturn moods, more of a tigress than ever. Onassis, on the other hand, was transformed. As the sea grew rougher, he became a real sea dog, giving orders right and left. One night my wife returned from a party at the Istanbul Hilton and said she loved another man. After an hour which seemed like an eternity, she admitted that the man was Aristotle Onassis...
...Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly...
...Fight? Taciturn and monosyllabic off the ice, the sinewy (5 ft. 10 in., 196 lbs.) Rocket turns into a ferociously truculent competitor once he takes stick in hand. In his long career, he has been fined a total of $2,500, an all-time record. In one celebrated incident three years ago, Richard attacked an official who was interfering with his assault on a Boston player. League President Clarence Campbell suspended him, thus banishing him from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal fans retaliated by attacking Campbell when he showed up to watch the next game, then surged out into downtown...