Word: martyring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...Right now, say in October, we might storm the Continent and lose a couple of corps in doing it, but we would be there and we would push ahead. It might be a good idea to lose thousands and thousands, to martyr a per cent of our forces in order to chop a couple of years off the war. The casualties would be large but they would have to be suffered. . . . The martyr idea and the reduction of the war by two years might be a good plan, but remember I said it might...
...Martyr. Kept incommunicado in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona, Gandhi could scarcely know that his third great mass movement in 20 years was turning into a revolution despite five weeks of ruthless police prosecution. As before, being in jail increased Gandhi's prestige as a legend and a martyr. His followers secretly printed a fiery Congress Newsletter which heated the campaign to halt factory work, disrupt transportation, close down schools, stores and civil administration...
...last week the Communist Party's ragamuffin had grown in public sentiment to a full-sized martyr, and Herbert Morrison, whose minority party exists by trade-union support, had no kidney for a test of strength...
Culbert Olson was helped to the Governor's chair by enthusiastic support from the remnants of Upton Sinclair's EPIC following, Ham 'N' Eggers and from organized labor, to whom he had promised the pardon of labor's martyr, Tom Mooney. He since infuriated the Ham 'N' Eggers by turning down their fantastic pension plan, sponsoring one of his own. When war came, others were impatient with his dalliance: for months he bickered with the legislature over providing an adequate State Guard...