Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enemies, Nixon was a perfect model for caricature. Foes saw him as a rootless mutant, sui generis, combining McCarthy's feral atavism with Machiavelli's cunning intellect. Friends perceived him as a courageous champion of basic American values. They remain united in the belief that he suffered a martyr's fate at the hands of the liberal aristocracy whose reign he challenged. For years, Watergate gave the bashers the better of the argument...
...razing the forests to lay claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...
...planned for November could prove to be a major test case for reporters determined to march. One journalist who will not be there: the New York Times's Greenhouse, whose last foray into the public arena originally sparked the debate. Says Greenhouse: "I don't intend to make a martyr of myself. I wouldn't want to do anything to undermine the credibility and objectivity of the profession...
Reality: Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
...recent Palestinian attack on a bus full of civilians could be something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people." And those who dismiss the settlers' increasing resort to acts of revenge as the scattered expressions of madmen are similarly out of touch...