Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they stood around waiting their turn, some of the youngsters pleaded, "Mamita, don't let her sting me." But they all got stung, and after a few tears most of them affected an air of childish martyrdom...
...state, guarded by four East Berlin athletes. He had been shot in the back of his neck, but no one knew by whom. Communist newspapers promptly published letters from "patriotic mothers," pledging their sons to the People's Police in place of Martyr Just. Amidst such competition in martyrdom, 1,520 refugees fled to the West in one day, a new record...
...Women who envy the interesting time that men have at work often exaggerate their own kitchen martyrdom ... to gain concessions and rewards. I know one woman who, on such a basis, got herself an extra television set, a fur coat, a small car and a separate bedroom-some husbands will do anything to insure their continuing to get a hot, home-cooked meal...
Written in 1912, Androcles and the Lion tells of a mild little Greek tailor (Alan Young) who befriends a wounded lion. Later the lion saves the tailor from Christian martyrdom in the Colosseum...
...World War II and a harrowing description of how starving Russian prisoners escape from a Nazi camp by digging through a latrine, When the Gods Are Silent reaches its climax. Mark Surov turns back to his native Russia, hoping that somehow he will be able to bring its martyrdom...