Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social justice" movement. Their presidential candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. But Franklin Roosevelt recognized the portents of martyrdom, granted him "an unsolicited pardon...
...official residence across from the white granite Diet building. As the 17 ministers assembled shortly after midnight, the windows were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
Greed Unwelcome. To the discomfiture of Iraqi Communists, Shakhnoub's aborted martyrdom stole the headlines from what had been expected to be a big Communist triumph in Baghdad, a visit by Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Although Russia a year ago offered the new revolutionary regime a $138 million line of credit to finance Russian imports and Russian aid projects, Iraqis say that the Russians are slow on delivery and their prices are too high. Receiving Mikoyan correctly but with pronounced coolness, Kassem reiterated that Iraq "refuses to bow to imperialism or any greedy quarter"-"greedy" being...