Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...labors, said Walter Eytan, had been "superhuman." Said Seif edDin: "One of the world's greatest men." A somewhat backhanded tribute also came from a young U.S. Army officer, a Southerner, who is a member of Bundle's staff: "I always swore I'd never work for a Nigra. Well, Dr. Bunche is a real man. His color just happens to be a little different...
...National Assembly, a non-Communist deputy asked if Thorez was "a candidate for the post formerly held in this country, when occupied by a foreign army, by a certain Pierre Laval." The Assembly, of which Thorez is a member, summoned him to explain himself. He repeated almost word for word the statement he had made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence...
...months ago after Rumania's Pauker and Bulgaria's Dimitrov had castigated the French comrades, at a Cominform meeting, for "bourgeois tendencies." The commission has become the most powerful organ in the French apparatus, outranking the Central Committee and even its Politburo. Maurice Thorez is not a member of the Control Commission...
...There are no ... passive members of the Communist Party . . . The statutes of membership define a party member as one who not only 'accepts the party program, attends the regular meetings of the membership branch of his place of work,' but 'who is active in party work.' Inactivity as well as disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly...