Word: incommunicado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bawdy border appendage of San Diego where sidewalk hustlers peddled a startling variety of sexual activities and mainstreet bars offered grinding nudes within tactile distance of the audience. The town's foul old jail became infamous as a place where unwary tourists might find themselves held incommunicado for so much as a traffic ticket. Even in the 1960s, when the city was already popular as a bullfight mecca, one of its few flattering U.S. notices was the appropriation of its name by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass...
Nielson will also have a hard time breaking back into the top three singles. But Fish and Nielson are a likely second doubles team. Nielson. a hard worker off the court as well, was incommunicado at the Continental Hotel last night working on a paper and could not be reached for comment...
...unwarned suspect later takes the stand, his pretrial statements to the police can be used to impeach his courtroom testimony. In sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan argued that the effect of the decision is that police may now "freely interrogate an accused incommunicado" despite Miranda; the accused may then see his own careless words convict him "if he has the temerity to testify in his own defense." Brennan's argument failed to move Burger, who dismissed "the speculative possibility that impermissible police conduct will be encouraged...