Word: incommunicado
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...cops had just arrested the general secretary of the opposition United Party, R. R. Amponsah, and another influential opposition M.P., accusing them (on flimsy evidence) of planning to assassinate Nkrumah. The two arrested M.P.s, like 38 other political opponents of Nkrumah picked up last November, are being held incommunicado...
...Patate, gamely struggled and sank. Perhaps more things were involved than just differing national brands of humor: matters of language and production, the speed at which light comedy travels, the split second in which a fleeting fancy can be trapped. Whatever the cause, the fun of Patate remained incommunicado throughout...
...after day, solemn, black-browed Seymour ("Top") Topping, 36, chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Berlin, pestered officials of Communist East Germany for a seemingly impossible story: an interview with the nine U.S. soldiers held incommunicado in East Germany since their helicopter was forced down last month (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). One night last week Topping's phone rang, and a voice said with no explanation: "Please come to the East Berlin Foreign Ministry tomorrow morning...
...some newsmen in Havana, his soldiers were throwing others into jail in strife-torn Santiago de Cuba. There, soon after arrival, the Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, NEA's Ward Cannel and Las Vegas TV Reporter Alan Jarlson were herded into a filthy jail and held incommunicado for nearly ten hours. Miami TV Cameraman Ben Silver was imprisoned for four days. Three other newsmen, including the New York Times's Homer Bigart, were picked up but quickly released...
...theory--that a grade or a written comment is an unsatisfying substitute for the give and take of a first hand discussion and explanation. But somehow or other, the theory as well as the professor disappear every year at this time--professors have an annoying habit of going incommunicado both before and after they have graded senior honors theses...