Word: martyrdom
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...were they about it that the election-day toll in the provinces of Valparaíso and Aconcagua added up to one dead, 60 injured. Unfortunately for Don Tinto, this gave his Rightist Opposition the chance it had been looking for to discredit him. With a fine show of martyrdom the Rightists decided their candidates were no longer safe from street riots, announced their complete withdrawal from the Senate & Chamber elections of next March. Though this left the field wide open for President Aguirre's Popular Frontists, it also set up the familiar design for a South American revolt...
They began flaunting their bare skin because "Adam had no clothes before he sinned. We have not sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having...
...city folk and farmers-at least 40,000 of the Japanese Christian community of 200,000 souls-"suffered death calmly for the sake of their Christian faith, evincing no resentment against anyone but, on the contrary, offering prayers for the sake of their persecutors." Such was the great Japanese martyrdom which took place 300 years ago when the Christian community founded there by St. Francis Xavier was suppressed. Christianity has not had a single martyr in Japan since Commodore Perry reopened it to missionaries and traders in 1853. Last week, as the Japanese Government's undercover campaign to purge...
Roman Catholics, the victims 300 years ago of Japan's great Christian martyrdom, were silent last week over the forced resig nation of the six. The Pope's Apostolic Delegate to Japan did not publicly protest...
...martyrdom does not sell papers. Last week the fledgling Chattanooga Tribune, five months old, suspended publication. Wrote remartyred George Fort Milton, announcing its demise: "Insufficient working capital and other adverse circumstances . . . have made it impossible for the . . . Tribune to continue...