Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim to the system to which Herbert Bauer fell victim ... If mankind can't help us, we will lift up our hands and cry 'Oh Lord, make us free.' " When it was all over, Patrolman Herbert Bauer was laid to rest in Tegel cemetery, as a martyr of the Cold...
...chrysanthemum garlands were hung around his neck. Camphor and incense were burned. Devotees recited prayers and a chant, composed by Gandhi, imploring God to grant wisdom to all. Hundreds came from all parts of Madras city, filed past the body of the man they now regarded as a martyr...
...Rodger P. Stewart endured the misery of poverty with this fortune at his hand? He had suffered, it seemed, for an ideal, and like many another martyr for his fellow man. Under the terms of his will, all the money is to go to St. John's University in Brooklyn-with a request that the institution build double handball courts for its students' well being...
...Isabella ran their royal fingers through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke a man, and feete lyke...
Through the years, even the name went through strange evolutions. Simla Vulpina (fox-monkey), after Martyr's description, turned out to be the Boschrot of Dutch explorers, the rat de bois of Louisiana's French trappers, didelphys in the classic zoology of Linnaeus and finally the modern opossum. This is the Indian name as recorded by Captain John Smith at Jamestown. But even Smith was wrong, said the King's surveyor in Carolina. The word was possum, preceded by a grunt, hence the opossum...