In part, the misperception was due to Capra's writers, who generally ranged from New Deal Democrats to card-carrying Communists.

Maybe he didn't call them "card-carrying Communists," Herman says.

In New York, Mr. Bachtell said, he can sense a sharpened public interest even if people do not necessarily become card-carrying Communists.

New membership rules permit billionaire businessmen to become card-carrying Communists.

What J. Edgar Hoover would have called hard-core, card-carrying Communists, about 20,000.

Basically, the job-creation estimate came from the same place where Joseph McCarthy learned that there were 57 card-carrying Communists in the State Department.

Its task is to make the A.C.L.U. sound subversive by evoking old Red-hunt fears of "card-carrying Communists."

The far more heavily populated Alcove 2 next door belonged to card-carrying Communists and fellow travelers.

Instead of fishing for card-carrying Communists, they troll the entire left, defined as a set of attitudes rather than specific parties or radical organizations.

One Lutheran organizer in Illinois "said that there ought to be 'card-carrying Christians' to counter the effect of 'card-carrying Communists."