Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying publicly that the Air Force had to have first priority in funds and materiel if it was really to be the first line of defense. This was a deliberate personal decision on his part: he felt that nothing in air power history, from Billy Mitchell's public martyrdom to Tooey Spaatz's pleas to Congress, had achieved its purpose. Van vowed to keep his arguments "in channels" and in the secret councils of the Joint Chiefs. This did not prevent him from making broad public hints of the problem uppermost in his mind-how to break...
London will get to see the film next month, the U.S. whenever Hoellering completes distribution plans. Moviegoers should have a special interest in the lines of the invisible and diabolical Fourth Tempter, who urges Thomas à Becket to court martyrdom and the eventual reward of sainthood. The Fourth Tempter: T. S. Eliot himself...
...huge outdoor rallies, with the slogan Wir Sind Dock Brüder (despite everything, we are brothers), the pilgrims listened to sermons. The tone, on the surface, was nonpolitical. This was in keeping with German Protestantism's policy toward Communism: don't seek martyrdom; outwardly obey the authorities; maintain the church organization in the hope...
...Gehr's "martyrdom" was a dramatic instance of U.S. confusion over the divorce question; in California-where every marriage license has an escape clause, in not too fine print-the question was reduced to moral absurdity. Movie Star Betty Hutton last week filed suit for her second divorce in nine months from Chicago Camera Manufacturer Ted Briskin.*"Well," she said cheerfully, "here we go again," and repeated the same testimony which had done the trick for her the last time. She had divorced Briskin in April and was reconciled with him before the decree became final...
...worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...