Word: martyre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facial paralysis had twisted his mouth. He rebelled against the world by feats of petty crime-once he hung by his fingertips from a third-story roof for ten minutes trying to escape the cops. But back in the 1930s he reformed, got married, grew silent and almost martyr-like in his resolve to lead the humble, uncomplaining life. Peter Akulonis never smiled, but he was good-year after year after year...
Viereck argued that this early infatuation with Communism during the 1930's still persisted today in the form of a "cultural lag" by which intellectuals, even though anti-Communist, each year sanctify a martyr to the cause of academic freedom or free speech who later turns out to have been a practicing Communist or fellow-traveler. A couple of years ago it was Hiss," he said. "Now it is Lattimore...
Jail was probably the best thing that ever happened to Kwame Nkrumah. It made him a martyr. The British sent out sound trucks to introduce the illiterate Gold Coasters to the intricacies of voting. They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah...
That night East Berlin's Communists, alarmed by Germany's reaction to a murder committed by Russians, went hunting for a martyr whom they could call their own. Next morning, they tacked up a proclamation: "On January 5 ... the entire peace-loving and patriotic population of Berlin will say farewell to that exemplary fighter of the People's Police, Helmut Just. He was murdered by agents of Mayor Reuter . . . another of the sneaky and brutal provocations on the part of American warmongers...
...chubby 19-year-old, lay in 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...