Word: taciturnly
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Like some Main Street version of Alec Guinness in a Midwest remake of The Captain's Paradise, the taciturn bureaucrat for years had secretly been supporting two separate families in two South Dakota towns some 200 miles apart: Pierre (pop. 10,300), where he maintained both a branch office and a modest house in a neat, middle-class neighborhood, and Sioux Falls (pop. 79,800), where he had his main office and a flat in an apartment complex known as the Tally...
...great many Rhodesians, how ever, Ian Smith is still "good old Smithy," the taciturn farmer who, had he been left alone, might have been able to preserve "the Rhodesian way of life" for the country's 274,000 whites. He was not left alone, they believe, and so he had no choice...
Peonies for Life. How one misses that old supporting cast! Much more than Poirot, Miss Marple inhabits a fixed and lively world. There is her tactless next-door neighbor, Miss Hartnell. "weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor"; the wealthy, amiable Bantrys; taciturn Sir Henry dithering, who once ran Scotland Yard; and the village snob, Mrs. Price Ridley. Among Agatha Christie lovers, that lady is justly famous for putting a pound in the offertory bag on the anniversary of her son's death and then severely taxing gentle Vicar Clement when his counts show the largest...
Ford also took one important step designed not to generate publicity but to improve it. Plagued by squabbles among his staff and an image as a weak leader, Ford shook up his publicity operation. Swedish-born Margita White, 39, taciturn director of the White House Office of Communications, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission. The President replaced her with David Gergen, 34, a former Nixon speechwriter and highly regarded special counsel to Ford, and made it clear that the Office of Communications would wield considerably more power; it is expected to grow from half...
...half-dozen Senators whom Carter was considering for the vice presidency. It was an assignment that Carter would give to no other man. Kirbo talked at length with Walter Mondale, Frank Church, John Glenn, Ed Muskie, Henry Jackson and Adlai Stevenson III. In his measured, mannerly way, the taciturn interrogator with the clear blue eyes asked them questions about their taxes and net worth, their health, and about their personal lives. He had picked up information that one of the men had an undisciplined temper, that another was a poor manager, that still another's personal conduct was questionable...