Word: taciturnly
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...High, where McVeigh graduated in 1986, would have nominated him as least likely to be the bomber. "He wasn't a troublemaker at all," says Wendy Stephany, while Cecelia M. Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house in his basement and ran small gambling casinos on his front lawn. One neighbor thought McVeigh "would go somewhere...
...Augusta and her two twentyish sons Mathew and Henry, aimless young men who want to rouse their mother out of her torpor but haven't the emotional strength. It will take an outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully...
...earlier to break the ice. "I want to thank you for being an influence in my life," said the Speaker-to-be. "You had a great deal to do with me being where I am today." Bob Gingrich could only listen in silence. Last week he was almost as taciturn, explaining his decision to sit simply: "After the third standing ovation, it gets a little old." Said the Speaker of his father: "He is a good infantryman who is highly disciplined and deeply trained to avoid emotion." As for himself, Newt admitted the excitement was getting...
...about 500 million beyond the old record set in 1992. Add to this overflow 2.5 billion bushels of soybeans -- almost 240 million more than the historic crop of 1979. And when cotton, rice and a hefty 2.3 billion bushels of wheat are counted, it is no wonder that usually taciturn agronomists and economists turn lyrical over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods and replenish the coffers like this," says Keith Collins, the USDA's chief economist. The exuberant poet...
...Curleys, for example, are a family of eight, all crammed into a tiny house. Here there's no room for anything but straight shooting, whether the subject is sex, using the bathroom or what's playing on the telly. The mother, Kay (Ruth McCabe), is patient, taciturn and sweet. When the question of contraception arises, she recalls the best she ever knew: the gift of a coat from her husband Dessie (Colm Meaney), which prevented him from taking her out in the fields where it might get dirty...