Word: incommunicado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maneuver technically necessitated by the fact that Poland's erstwhile "Strong Man" Marshal Smigly-Rydz and other members of the former Polish Cabinet had not only been interned but held strictly incommunicado in Rumania, as a result of joint pressure applied by Berlin and Moscow to King Carol...
...over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night he was taken, not to the International Settlement, but to a hospital in Japanese-controlled Hongkew where two Japanese & two German surgeons performed an emergency operation while Japanese sentries stood guard. Briton Tinkler died...
...youth, a good physique, two university degrees," but no money, and his clothes were in rags. Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
...Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming, hardly any noise." Captain Pruss said nothing, held incommunicado by doctors who gave him "a 50-50 chance to live...
...negotiation. At that moment it was just after 7 p. m. in Washington, D. C. In the U. S. Treasury Department Secretary Henry Morgenthau and a group of weary but pleased advisers also stood around a newly silenced telephone. At 7:30, after he had remained for hours strictly incommunicado, Secretary Morgenthau called for the press...