Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution, coming from a strongly conservative Senator, was a setback to the hopes of Joe's hard-core Senate followers, whose latest gambit had been to promote talk that McCarthy, if censured, might bolt the G.O.P. to head a third party in 1956. Joe's scramble for martyrdom and his appeal over the Senate to the people were cited as evidence of the walkout possibility. It was fairly obvious that Wallace Bennett was one Re publican who held scant fear about Joe's defection...
...McCarthy himself was not cooperating with the compromise effort; martyrdom was too inviting...
...words: "Perverted Religion," massacred 25,000 of them at Saigon, and martyred 22 missionaries with the "torture of 100 cuts." The truce forces on Indo-China's Catholics the hard choice of leaving their homes and churches to move south, or to stay and face the possibility of martyrdom at the hands of the Reds. Anti-Communist Vietnamese reported last week that Catholics in the north must already pay fees to attend Mass or wear crosses. A report from a Spanish Dominican priest at Namdinh was released by the Vatican. "Let us hope," he wrote, "that their faith will...
Best guess was that Bevan would be willing to risk thumping defeat to dramatize his cause. That, and the cloak of martyrdom, might be what frustrated Nye was seeking. Years ago he had written: "My concern was with one practical question . . . Where was power, and which the road to it?" He had still to find the answer...
...French missionary who was sent to the South Sea island of Futuna in the Tonga archipelago, where he was axed to death after three years, at the age of 38. Though he had achieved no marked success in converting the natives, the entire island, moved by his martyrdom, became Roman Catholic within three years of his death...