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  • As in Czech society (where to hold any responsible job you had to be a communist party-member) Iraq required at least nominal Baath Party membership to advance in that dictatorial society.

    First, Send Everybody Home 2007

  • I repeat that the new party-member who supposed himself independent will presently find that the party have somehow got a mortgage on his soul, and that within a year he will recognize the mortgage, deliver up his liberty, and actually believe he cannot retire from that party from any motive howsoever high and right in his own eyes without shame and dishonor.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • I wrote a piece about his artistic effort, an original manner for a young party-member to emulate his F6hrer, and sent it to the Evening Standard.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • I repeat that the new party-member who supposed himself independent will presently find that the party have somehow got a mortgage on his soul, and that within a year he will recognize the mortgage, deliver up his liberty, and actually believe he cannot retire from that party from any motive howsoever high and right in his own eyes without shame and dishonor.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I repeat that the new party-member who supposed himself independent will presently find that the party have somehow got a mortgage on his soul, and that within a year he will recognize the mortgage, deliver up his liberty, and actually believe he cannot retire from that party from any motive howsoever high and right in his own eyes without shame and dishonor.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • "Our young party-member, Pelle, to-day celebrates his nuptials with the daughter of one of the oldest and most respected members of the party,

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • "Our young party-member, Pelle, to-day celebrates his nuptials with the daughter of one of the oldest and most respected members of the party,

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

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