Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remote. Even when his emotionally distraught daughter attempts suicide, he sends an emissary to her bedside. Eventually, the young woman seeks fulfillment outside her native country, first in Europe, then in the U.S., where she and her daughter live today. In the final chapters she celebrates the statesman and martyr she knows better in death than in life. Yet it is as a man that her father remains most appealing, spending his Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit his birthplace ("The villagers even had color TV before I did in Cairo") and promoting culture. "You made me cry the other...
Black Leader Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice...
...offering provisions, protection, reinforcements and television cameras. Yet bombing the airport would be a clumsy blow, an act of war against Lebanon that asks killing innocents. An air strike on Kharg Island, Iran's oil port in the Persian Gulf, is tempting to some hawks, but it would only martyr Khomeini and further inflame his followers...
...Ordeal of Flight 487 will slowly fade from the screen, a casualty of overexposure and a martyr to the war against terrorism...
...Joan doesn't run straight lines," freshman Callie Huber says. "You know how Joan of Arc was a martyr--that's what she makes me think...