Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sending the Communist bosses to jail before the Supreme Court settles their case, Justice Jackson thought, would have "a disastrous effect on the reputation of American justice." Communism must not be "hallowed and glorified by any semblance of martyrdom." Even no-good citizens, said Jackson in effect, are entitled to freedom under bail, which will be continued for the ten Reds...
...Basil Kingsley Martin, who writes most of the lead editorials and a gossipy column about cabbages & kings signed "Critic." With his querulous aquiline profile and his tonsure-like ring of hair, 53-year-old Kingsley Martin well fits his role as omniscient dissenter and belligerent pacifist. His sense of martyrdom is irritating and sincere, once prompted the remark: "If you see someone who looks as if he is on his way to Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker] to hire a crown of thorns-that's Kingsley Martin." Martin registered as a conscientious objector in 1916. After his return...
...hearings, Ring has been fired by his studio, and has had only one job-a script for a picture made in Switzerland. His wife earned money as a radio actress and by playing bit parts in the movies. Like the other Hollywood Ten, Ring seemed to enjoy his martyrdom. "They are annoyed if they don't make Page One of the New York Times every day," said a friend. In the Communist press, they were heroes...
...near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether...
With seven of the eight judges concurring, Raymonde was sentenced to a year in prison. To the Communists this was dishearteningly short of martyrdom. Deflated and forlorn, they wanly sang the Marseillaise and shambled out of the courtroom...