Word: corvalan
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Among Latinos, Spanglish conversations often flow easily from Spanish into several sentences of English and back again. "It is done unconsciously," explains Carmen Silva-Corvalan, a Chilean-born associate professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California, who speaks Spanglish with relatives and neighbors. "I couldn't even tell you minutes later if I said something in Spanish or in English...
...Constitution and Criminal Code. His gambit was to exchange a third of his life in prisons and psychiatric clinics for the dignity of saying nyet. It gained him an international reputation for incorrigible heroics. In 1976 the Soviet government solved their embarrassment by swapping Bukovsky for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalan, then a prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship. Today Bukovsky lives in England, where he has resumed his frequently interrupted study of biology...
They included two British psychiatrists and Vladimir Bukovsky, the Russian dissident whom the Soviets exchanged in 1976 for Chilean Communist Party Chief Luis Corvalan...
Aware of their rise, the Eleventh Congress resounded with confidence. Delegates re-elected a secretary general, Schoolteacher Luis Corvalan, 48, and President Elias Lafferte, 72. Brought back into the party's politburo was world-famed Poet Pablo Neruda...
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