Word: martyrdom
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...irreverent jokes. But it is a measure of how stately and hollow the enterprise is that the grandest moments are the scene changes, with their sweeping use of the wide stage, and the special effects of the finale, as a train pulls in to take Lincoln away to Washington, martyrdom and immortality...
...TIME: If the price of democracy is martyrdom, are you willing...
...both Andrew Burlinson, as the spring chicken Master Knight, and Matthew Strack, as the starry-eyed peasant. Strack carries off the difficult role of infatuated youth and ardent revolutionary, whispering sweet but wholesome nothings into his love-muffin's ear at one moment, rousing the masses to glorious martyrdom in defense of liberty and justice the next...
...dead was Nazih Rashed, 35, whose leg was severed and who died later in a nearby hospital. He had apparently achieved martyrdom, since the extremist Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the bombing and saying he was one of the members who carried it out. Police had Rashed on top of their most-wanted list, and he was already on trial in absentia, charged with murder and membership in an illegal group responsible for the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Rashed, noted police, had been trained in the use of explosives when he fought...
MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID can work the crowd as well as any politician. At a demonstration last week in Mogadishu against the U.S.-led air strikes, the United Nations' most-wanted man switched nimbly between martyrdom and angry defiance. Stretching his hands skyward, he led 1,000 clansmen in prayer, urging them to take comfort in Islam. "The U.N. and the U.S. are trying to impose colonial rule on us," he said. "God will destroy Washington as surely as they have destroyed Mogadishu...