Word: taciturnly
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...Taciturn General Pershing never concealed the fact that he considered Marshall the A.E.F.'s outstanding staff officer. Nor was Pershing alone. Many an Allied colleague readily admitted that Marshall, at 37, was author and director of the most outstanding large-scale troop movement of World War I: during two crucial weeks before the Meuse-Argonne operation he shifted more than 500,000 men and 2,700 guns with such perfection that the Germans learned of the maneuver an all-important 24 hours too late...
...boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold R. Stark, 63, commander of U.S. Naval forces in European waters; spare, taciturn Royal...
...Chinese, whose intelligence about Admiral Koga is probably better than the U.S. Navy's, consider him to be taciturn, scholarly, unpolitical. They say he is "extremely suspicious and careful and lacks Yamamoto's ability to make quick decisions...
...Softy. To his friends and students, Wilbur Cross is "Uncle Toby," a nickname taken from the famous character in Sterne's Tristram Shandy who "would not harm a fly." The nickname is deceptive. The Connecticut Yankee as exemplified by ex-Governor Cross is not as taciturn as the Vermont Yankee. He is less inclined than the Boston Yankee to parade his sense of being, like the Lowells, just this side of God. He comes, of course, from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical...
...after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes in his ship and his rudder control shot away...