Word: incommunicado
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Packwood, however, did not answer the latest accusations: he was incommunicado, undergoing diagnosis for possible alcohol abuse at an undisclosed treatment center. Some viewed this as a calculated dodge. "Packwood is playing the role of victim, using the alcoholism excuse," said Thomas Mann, an expert on congressional affairs for the Brookings Institution. "It's clear that he is overwhelmed and is trying to figure out how to manage this scandal...
From 1974 to 1977, the family was reportedly kept in almost total darkness. For the next ten years, they were held incommunicado in separate, windowless cells. In the past few years, the conditions of the family's detention have improved. In 1987 King Hassan agreed to let them immigrate to Canada but then reneged on the deal...
...marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops herded roughly 150 foreign students, including four Americans, onto buses and confined them in a hotel 50 miles away. At week's end they were being held incommunicado while diplomats negotiated with Beijing officials for their release. Meantime, some demonstrators demanded that provincial-government leaders "punish the ruffians to promote the country's honor," while other Chinese students marched on the railway station, not knowing the foreigners had already been taken away...
...national slang. Its popularity has grown with the explosive increases in U.S. immigration from Latin American countries. English has increasingly collided with Spanish in retail stores, offices and classrooms, in pop music and on street corners. Anglos whose ancestors picked up such Spanish words as rancho, bronco, tornado and incommunicado, for instance, now freely use such Spanish words as gracias, bueno, amigo and por favor...
...summary of his statement without being allowed to read it. But when one of his interrogators then jumped up and shouted, "We've got ourselves another spy!" Bracy immediately denied saying anything of the kind. He also denied any sexual involvement with Soviet women and, says Powell, was held incommunicado for hours in a motel room after he had asked to see an attorney...