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  • "Don't you know he had ties to communism?"†   (source)
  • Not once, however, had the communists been mentioned until today, regardless of the fact that people of such political creed were also to be punished.†   (source)
  • Billions of dollars flowed into our exchequer from the United States and other Western countries, as well as weapons to help the ISI train the Afghans to fight the communist Red Army.†   (source)
  • Baba believed Carter had unwittingly done more for communism than Leonid Brezhnev.†   (source)
  • With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security.†   (source)
  • True, Richard had said much against the Communists, but that was once upon a time.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said, "a black Communist bisexual would have really irked her."†   (source)
  • Pan-Species Communism.†   (source)
  • "Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's like a mix of the Communist Party, the KGB, and the mafia.†   (source)
  • But the Communist Party was not a "State of Nature."†   (source)
  • With the Soviet Union having reunified Slovakia with the Czech Republic and creating Czechoslovakia under their influence, Lale's business was, according to him, the only one not immediately nationalized by the communist rulers.†   (source)
  • Walking in the park, they had stumbled across an altercation between National Socialist and Communist gangs of thugs.†   (source)
  • One of these was Mr. Satish Kumar, my biology teacher at Petit Seminaire and an active Communist who was always hoping Tamil Nadu would stop electing movie stars and go the way of Kerala.†   (source)
  • They rejected urban renewal three times because they thought it was a communist plot, and they defeated any number of proposals for historic-zoning ordinances.†   (source)
  • He thinks I'm talking about Communists."†   (source)
  • IF WE BOMB THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO BITS—TO PROTECT IT FROM COMMUNISM—WHAT KIND OF PROTECTION IS THAT?†   (source)
  • There is a rumor that he crushed a communist's windpipe with his hands.†   (source)
  • Some, including my own grandparents with their children, feared the Communists and fled to the small offshore island of Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.†   (source)
  • That person said, You ask for a house loan and they say no loan, because your brother is a communist.†   (source)
  • Bit of a Communist.†   (source)
  • His political affiliations were dodgy: he had all kinds of friends who were Communists.†   (source)
  • From all accounts there are no more puritanical mores in the world than those enforced by the Communists in Russia, where women's fashions, for instance, are as prudent and all-covering as any American Baptist would desire.†   (source)
  • An assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life, and for once not by Jewish Communists or English capitalists, but by a German general who's not only a count, but young as well.†   (source)
  • In 1949, after centuries of inaccessibility, Nepal opened it borders to the outside world, and a year later the new Communist regime in China closed Tibet to foreigners.†   (source)
  • The KP people, Lydia and Johan, gazed hack at him stony-eyed; both were devout communists.†   (source)
  • With the break-up of communist Russia, Artemis Senior had decided to invest a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in establishing new shipping lines to the vast continent.†   (source)
  • We found binoculars with old Communist hammer-and-sickle emblems.†   (source)
  • Me and Dennis weren't for communism.†   (source)
  • No, they're not part of some Communist plot.†   (source)
  • The woman next to me at the relay bench was an intense Communist woman named Floor.†   (source)
  • As rock-ribbed a Republican as ever was allowed to take a breath in West Virginia, my father detested the Russian Communists, although, it should be said, not quite as much as certain American politicians.†   (source)
  • Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist stooge, or a nationalist savior, or both, or neither?†   (source)
  • "She's a communist!"†   (source)
  • Several slots on the rack are occupied by the Reverend Wayne's famous bestseller, How America Was Saved from Communism: ELVIS SHOT JFK.†   (source)
  • It has a Christian summer camp whose founder, David Noebel, outlined the dangers of rock 'n' roll in his pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles.†   (source)
  • I even tried inviting him to a study session, but he refused, although in jest he began calling me the "Chinmunist," a combination of Chin and communist.†   (source)
  • Malcolm's working in deep cover, sponsoring a Communist revival.†   (source)
  • At times you'd think he was some sort of Communist, then he comes out with something that makes him sound true blue Tory.†   (source)
  • He was born in Hamburg in 1936, the son of a communist family.†   (source)
  • I caught brief glimpses of world history in the making (high tea with vanquished Iraqi soldiers in the first Gulf War, ninety-proof vodka with Muscovites celebrating the fall of Communism, diving for cover in a Bosnian graveyard as a funeral procession came under attack) and I chased news across the United States (the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, the parade of presidential candidates through Iowa and New Hampshire, the trials of assassins and thieves ranging from a…†   (source)
  • Ancient Sparta came to mind, Communist Russia and her satellites.†   (source)
  • The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.†   (source)
  • It's full of communists and agitators, who want to, bring down the government.†   (source)
  • For me, the first sights of communist Cuba were a great relief after Haiti.†   (source)
  • Ah—I thought the Communists were all for violent overthrow and that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • You're not behaving like communists.†   (source)
  • So I get to be a big labor leader instead, and my Dad tries to get me railroaded to jail as a Communist.†   (source)
  • The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians.†   (source)
  • Distinguished Service Cross in Korea, for leading an escape from a Communist prison camp.†   (source)
  • The first refugees arrived in Clarkston in the late 1980s and early 1990s from Southeast Asia—mostly Vietnamese and Cambodians fleeing Communist governments.†   (source)
  • In 1966, one year after Nicolae Ceausescu became the Communist dictator of Romania, he made abortion illegal.†   (source)
  • As a boy, Ramius sensed more than thought that Soviet Communism ignored a basic human need.†   (source)
  • One reason for that is the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and Indochina.†   (source)
  • Years later, after observing Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia, President John F. Kennedy—who had served in the navy during World War II—and others in the military understood the need for unconventional warriors.†   (source)
  • We were trying to beat the communists at their own game.†   (source)
  • This fight is every bit as significant as the struggles against the fascism of the Third Reich and the murderous communism of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • They tore down temples and shrines: Mao wanted communism to have no competition from other religions.†   (source)
  • On watch, Mortenson was authorized to fire at the Communist snipers if they shot at East German civilians trying to escape.†   (source)
  • "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity," noted New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told Congress.†   (source)
  • And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel's peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.†   (source)
  • Trueba would not listen to this sort of thing: it smacked, he said, of Communism.†   (source)
  • 'The Communist sergeant,' said Yossarian.†   (source)
  • In Gatlin, being illegitimate was like being a communist or an atheist.†   (source)
  • It was three days before that Communist sedation wore off.†   (source)
  • I don't know, communism or something.†   (source)
  • It's Seth's money, if he wants to leave it to the Communist Party then it's his business.†   (source)
  • What're you, a communist?" asked Bobby.†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • I saw him bought in Athens by Greek developers selling additional airstrips to Washington when they knew the Communists were going to throw us out.†   (source)
  • Some two hundred years later, in 1979, a lawyer called Maurice Bishop started a new revolution, which the guidebook said was inspired by the Communist dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua.†   (source)
  • Survived the communists after the fall of Saigon and then pirates at sea, even a typhoon.†   (source)
  • Members of the unit rescued Grenada's governor-general, Paul Scoon, during the U.S.—led invasion of the small Caribbean nation after a Communist takeover.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind communism; it was a welcome change from the exhausting romances that made up most of the curriculum.†   (source)
  • Last night, I went to Club Caramel and sat there while that girl played the xylophone and sang ten songs about communism.†   (source)
  • We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing.†   (source)
  • Martian Communists?†   (source)
  • Fear about the global spread of communism is rampant in the United States.†   (source)
  • Could it be caused by Communists?†   (source)
  • Surely, Will, you must be sympathetic to the cause of the South Vietnamese and their efforts to repel the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.†   (source)
  • There's Sam Lonnigan, who as a liberal-leaning broadcaster became snared by Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt.†   (source)
  • I was raised to believe Catholics were idol-worshippers, liberals were communists, and that black and white never mixed.†   (source)
  • So my report was about the threat of Communism, the Chinese Army, how MacArthur was a visionary, that Truman should have listened to him.†   (source)
  • I thought you were a Communist.†   (source)
  • Remember how she always used to swear you were a Communist?†   (source)
  • Their plans, they said, were to put the inmates to work in a public/private enterprise, a slick mixture of capitalism and communism.†   (source)
  • We have Communists and Fourths and Ruddyites and Societians and Single-Taxers and you name it.†   (source)
  • If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.†   (source)
  • I sold capitalism to communists.†   (source)
  • His stories of trading for copra, fights with gangs in pre-Communist Shanghai and, as they both got older, beautiful island maidens, were some of the highlights of Tyler's childhood.†   (source)
  • And Communism?†   (source)
  • If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves.†   (source)
  • ] HESTHER: He's a Communist, then?†   (source)
  • He selected a slender book, Directory of Communist Leaders, found the name, and read: "Torgatz, Dmitri; born Leningrad 1903?†   (source)
  • Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't that disqualify him as any kind of anti-Communist figure?†   (source)
  • None of these ole Communist fish eggs.†   (source)
  • In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind--too little food.†   (source)
  • You talk like a Communist.†   (source)
  • Communists were "crackpots" and "bomb throwers."†   (source)
  • He's darn near a Communist, that's what people say.†   (source)
  • He had recently revised his views, admitted his past errors, and recanted them in several detailed statements, and he had not only been received into the Communist Party but had soon afterwards been entrusted with his present responsible task.†   (source)
  • To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.†   (source)
  • Afraid of the word 'politics' (which eventually became a synonym for Communism among the more reactionary elements, so I hear, and it was worth your life to use the word!†   (source)
  • Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.   (source)
  • He had heard about unions; in his mind unions and Communists were linked.   (source)
    communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property
  • These communists, what is it that they believe?†   (source)
  • Open street fighting has been observed, with city police siding with the Communists.†   (source)
  • First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.†   (source)
  • Thinking we were going to kill him when we were fighting a war with the Communists was weird.†   (source)
  • And again I say out loud, "This is communist China?"†   (source)
  • Life after Communism has not been easy in Plauen.†   (source)
  • Not that it was a mystery; everyone knew the communists had no class.†   (source)
  • That way, international communism would be further strengthened.†   (source)
  • "But the communist regime is staying," she said.†   (source)
  • Communist China, the Brave New World of Aldous Huxley and the 1984 of George Orwell.†   (source)
  • But I didn't know they were communist ideas!†   (source)
  • Oh, Hester, what would the Communists want with Maycomb County?†   (source)
  • We argued about positively everything: even communism!†   (source)
  • It's true, Communists are like Christians.†   (source)
  • Lily's husband was West Indian, and they were members of the Communist Youth Movement.†   (source)
  • We are Young Pioneers, successors to Communism.†   (source)
  • In that sense, capitalism is 'progressive' because it is a stage on the way to communism.†   (source)
  • What are you: a royalist, socialist, communist, or some other kind of —ist?†   (source)
  • The real secret was that communism crept into Kerala insidiously.†   (source)
  • Béene, do you know what a Communist is?†   (source)
  • The Japanese had become angry that the Communists were hiding in the hills.†   (source)
  • Plauen became part of the communist German Democratic Republic ( GDR), but just barely.†   (source)
  • No, they're idealists, too, and all of us idealists are dirty communists.†   (source)
  • Oh, the Catholics and the Communists and Lord knows what else.†   (source)
  • The first sentence in this manifesto says: A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.†   (source)
  • The seeds of Pan-Species Communism had sprouted long ago in the ancient East.†   (source)
  • Except that the high literacy level was largely because of the Communist movement.†   (source)
  • And the Communists did alter China in many positive ways.†   (source)
  • First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.†   (source)
  • The communists confiscated so much of my land, and all of my stores as well.†   (source)
  • You talk about Communists — stuff like that — and it doesn't mean much when you're in school.†   (source)
  • In her head, she could hear Rasheed's rants against Massoud, how he was a traitor and a communist.†   (source)
  • There was a lot of talk about how we were kicking the living crap out of the Communists, too.†   (source)
  • Before he became a communist, the young Marx was preoccupied with what happens to man when he works.†   (source)
  • You were a Communist and had a shirt and a flag.†   (source)
  • Let them go Communist if they feel like it.†   (source)
  • But when she came out, she was still happy to be a Communist.†   (source)
  • "—and anybody who thinks different's either a Communist or might as well be one.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows he's a flaming communist.†   (source)
  • I once fervently believed in Mao and the Chinese Communist Party.†   (source)
  • 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism."†   (source)
  • I am sure you are loyal to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party-.†   (source)
  • But she told me he was crying like a child the morning the communists took him.†   (source)
  • Sometimes not "Are we going to become a Communist?"†   (source)
  • —for evidence of poor U.S. leadership, the missile gap, and proof of the Communist threat.†   (source)
  • Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution.†   (source)
  • The Communists are closer to God, even though they don't believe in Him.†   (source)
  • She wondered if the communists would go after him, then.†   (source)
  • Mother said, "Now is he the one they're saying is a Communist?†   (source)
  • They are neutral on the Nationalists and the Communists.†   (source)
  • You didn't know I was a communist, did you?†   (source)
  • Nehru dismissed the Communist government and announced fresh elections.†   (source)
  • Politics class was actually just the familiar Communist Party history.†   (source)
  • The various communist regimes that had held power since the night Laila was born were all defeated.†   (source)
  • "Long live the Chinese Communist Party," and "Long live socialist China."†   (source)
  • What if the Communists used the quarry as a machine-gun trench?†   (source)
  • How I did it was spying on the African Communist Boy Scouts.†   (source)
  • Marx was especially interested in the transition from a capitalist to a communist society.†   (source)
  • She reminds me once again of the Communist threat.†   (source)
  • They were Communists, and since they were not Japanese, the men were not concerned.†   (source)
  • He said Sister Yu was promoted many times, until she was a high-position Communist Party leader.†   (source)
  • Rachel informs me I've had my brains washed by a Communist plot.†   (source)
  • I was afraid I had stumbled upon a secret army for the Communists.†   (source)
  • Then I found it, an article called "Will Africa Go Communist?"†   (source)
  • And Second Brother ran off to join the Communists two years after that.†   (source)
  • And if that sounds like Communist bilge, I'm afraid for the most part it's embarrassingly accurate.†   (source)
  • Within the Firm the terms "communist" and "traitor" were synonymous.†   (source)
  • She'd say we were all going to turn communist.†   (source)
  • The entry didn't mention any Koreans except for Syngman Rhee and Kim II Sung, the Communist leader.†   (source)
  • Is this some sort of wage communism you're advocating?"†   (source)
  • And so, no doubt, he would have, had not the Communists liberated Manchuria in the fall.†   (source)
  • It's the old bolshevik dream being dreamed again and it's the communists who are behind it all.†   (source)
  • My enemy is kitsch, not Communism! she replied, infuriated.†   (source)
  • But how could Communists cause three planes to crash in a row?†   (source)
  • From what little he knew of Communism, he had expected everyone to be fairly equal.†   (source)
  • Many were paranoid in their hatred of Communists.†   (source)
  • It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.†   (source)
  • Not even Colonel Hurtado, who saw traitors everywhere he looked, considered the Communists a danger.†   (source)
  • How could eighteen years of communism be so easily influenced by six short weeks of capitalism?†   (source)
  • His hatred for those who would oppose communism is powerful and real.†   (source)
  • 'You're going to have to fight the Communists sooner or later,' said Campbell.†   (source)
  • She's convinced she can fight Communism from behind her bakery counter.†   (source)
  • Are you going to be shot for desertion or for being a communist?†   (source)
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