Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bigger issue of sexism at Harvard, however, we do not want to scapegoat this club and in any way foster the impression that this situation is somehow unique. It would be unfortunate if Pi Eta be came, instead of an opportunity for education and university action against sexism, a martyr for the cause for freedom of speech...
...took his campaign into the South for the crucial primaries in Alabama, Georgia and Florida on March 13, Jackson occasionally struck a martyr's pose. The fact is, however, that as America's first major black presidential candidate, he has sometimes benefited from a troubling lack of press and public scrutiny...
Still, he became widely regarded as a martyr of science who had been humbled by backward churchmen. Despite some tributes to Galileo by later church leaders, including several Popes, his condemnation has continued to taint relations between the Vatican-indeed, perhaps all religious authority-and scientists...
...fired." He almost was last fall, but Administration campaign strategists fear that sacking Feldstein, who long ago announced plans to return to Harvard in September, would be politically more hazardous than keeping him on a while longer. The President has said that he does not want to make a "martyr" of the economist. Feldstein may be pushing his luck, though. Says one White House aide: "Sometimes it seems as if he's testing us to see just how far he can go. We don't know if he wants to be fired or not. Sometimes it seems like...
...imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop, the popular former Prune Minister who has been locally regarded as a martyr ever since he was executed during last October's traumatic coup. While his former deputy and usurper, Bernard Coard, still languishes in jail awaiting trial, T shirts depicting Bishop are selling for $15 apiece in a small second-floor room now known as the Maurice Bishop Memorial Center...