Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more appealing on Capitol Hill than in grammar school and scattered enforcement always seems unfair, it would be a mistake to conclude that Wright and Coelho are victims of a deranged political environment dominated by vengeful Republicans and gooey do-gooders. Although Coelho characterized himself as a martyr, resigning to save his family and Congress, he was actually getting out to save his neck. The $100,000 deal involving one of Michael Milken's junk bonds promised to be every bit as serious as Wright's transgressions. And the investigations have the same salutary effect as the state trooper...
...martyr. I've never thought of myself as a rebel, although I am one to my alleged family. A rebel with a liberal cause...
...incident as a straightforward occurrence of homophobic violence and implied that Mather House was thus divided only between enlightened citizens and petty bigots, Defeat Homophobia was able to turn a bizarre and unresolved charge of gay-on-straight harassment into a moral crusade, its alleged perpetrator into a martyr and the Mather debate into a purge of alleged homophobes: anyone who felt the incident to be an inappropriate cause celebre for even the most worthy cause...
...incredibly outlandish (he has charged that Queen Elizabeth II is involved in a drug ring, and that former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is the tool of a communist conspiracy), his supporters are dedicated. The hunger-striker in the Square, who called LaRouche a "prisoner of war" and a "martyr," vowed to starve himself to protest the incarceration and "murder" of LaRouche. If he succeeds, I think we can write it off as natural selection...
...Shultz intended to depict Arafat as a common terrorist, he failed. Arafat emerged from the confrontation with his reputation enhanced -- as something of a martyr to Shultz's intransigence. If the Secretary sought to deny Arafat the kind of prominence that a U.N. visit would bring, he produced the opposite: a publicity bonanza for the chairman. "Had the U.S. let him come, he would have been news for a day or two," said an Arab diplomat. "Now he will be a hot news item for weeks." When the General Assembly convenes in Geneva, Arafat can expect to bask...