Word: martyre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johannesburg's sprawling slums a native Bible teacher recently quizzed his pupils on St. Stephen. "Who was Christianity's first martyr?" he asked. "Who spoke out against the authorities and defiantly affirmed his faith in God and Christ?" The answer came: "Fod Huddson! Fod Huddson...
...honorary degree, greeting each and all with "'I wish you all much happiness,' 'Gentlemen, I heartily wish you success in life,' and so on, constantly varying the phrase, which was always full of feeling." Visitors from abroad were entertained there as well: Francisco de Miranda from South America, "martyr to the cause of which Bolivar was the hero," finished his tour of Harvard in the Wadsworth dining room, the guest of President Willard whom he found "lean, austere, and of an insufferable circumspection...
...Martyr. In San Francisco, Mailman Charles W. O'Brien, 62, charged with tearing up third-class "junk" mail (merely addressed to "occupant" or "boxholder") and then throwing it down a sewer, was let off with only a year's probation by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman, who remarked: "Maybe he was performing a public service...
...Jones, who was sitting next to Perkins. I looked at Jim Farley on one occasion and discovered him with his eyes closed. Bob Jackson was nodding from time to time, and, at intervals, he and Morgenthau were joking about something. Hull sat with the air of an early Christian martyr, with his hands folded, looking at the edge of the table without seeing it or anything else. I think that he was totally oblivious as to what was going on. As usual. I studiously avoided being caught by Perkins' basilisk eye. Henry Wallace was contemplating the ceiling." The date...
While he himself believes that witnesses should testify candidly, Griswold said, "It is easier to wish that someone else would be a martyr, than it is to be one yourself. And the point here is that . . . the privilege may be claimed without the person having in fact done anything criminal...