Word: martyrdom
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...Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading to the U. S. Supreme Court, a pardon by Governor Fuller...
...words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri, realist, is conscious of the value of that dramatic martyrdom which surrounds His Holiness as the "Prisoner of the Vatican...
Dazzled by the martyrdom proposed to them the Socialist auditors of M. Blum pledged themselves by acclamation to dine ten times during the coming year without awakening their gastric juices to action by an "appetizer...
...give impression of its strength before the pending election. Danton and Roland, concerned for their own heads, hinted disapproval but did not venture more. The list of victims, definitely though they had disappeared, was long lost, and the Roman Catholic Church remained uncertain of the claims of many to martyrdom...
...come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling chunks of rock to become incandescent with friction. "Shooting stars," murmured lovers in the dark. "The tears of St. Lawrence," whispered the devout, for Aug. 10 is the anniversary of that saint's martyrdom.* In Manhattan and at Schenectady, certain earthlings, adept at communicating with one another by impulses sent out electrically on the ether that fills in spaces between Earth's atmospheric gas molecules, watched and listened carefully to see if the shower of meteors would cause any waves of disturbance detectable...