Word: martyring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal water will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world...
...Norway's martyr," he thundered. The court smiled...
...skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
...honoring Guru (Teacher) Govind Singh and his two martyr sons, by breaking ground for a shrine for them. The story goes that Guru's sons were captured by the Moslems (circa 1700) and held as hostages until their father should renounce his faith. When he refused, the Moslems built a tomb over the two boys, 7 and 9, and buried them alive...
...doctors never did much about Catherine. Her complaints disappeared after she left high school and took a clerical job in which she was no longer pushed beyond her intellectual limits. But at story's end Mrs. Q, cherishing her martyr's role, had still done nothing about her ulcer...