Word: taciturnly
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...length, some 7,000 miles out of Panama, they approach and learn their target-the small, elegant triangle of Marcus Island. The night before their first experience of combat-a night crowded with taciturn faces, with letters home, with prayers and last Communions, with the subdued, systematic turmoil of spotting the deck, with athletes' breakfasts served by artificial light, and finally with just waiting-is one of the most moving sequences in the film...
Junk the Trolley? As usual, E. Roy Fitzgerald, 51, the taciturn president of National City Lines, kept his plans for Los Angeles to himself and his brothers: Ed, 60,'the quiet, conservative treasurer; Ralph, 49, hard-driving boss of operations and maintenance; Kent, 45, who runs the Illinois operations for National; and John, 54, head of an independent bus line...
Last week tart, taciturn Joseph W. Stilwell arrived in Washington from the Far East. He said nothing. His silence was eloquent. For few Americans knew China so well as General Joseph Stilwell. Few understood so well as he the gravity of the crisis dramatized by his recall-its implications for the future fate of China, the U.S., the world...
...walked into the press room of the Hotel Torni the afternoon of our break with Finland. A taciturn, potbellied, elderly German 'journalist,' Friedrich Borchman, vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Association, was playing chess. Borchman's main job is watching other German journalists for the Gestapo...
...captives in his command car to headquarters and served them his best brandy. By radio he notified Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, VII Corps commander. "Lightning Joe" Collins said he'd be right over. While they waited, good host Eddy tried to make small talk. Schlieben was taciturn; Hennecke was glad of the chance...