Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotheaded, toothbrush-mustached Spanish Catalan, Luis Companys, became a rebel when he added to the chaos of Spain's October 1934 revolution by declaring his native province, rich, industrial Catalonia, an independent republic. He became a martyr when the Government sent him to jail for 30 years. He became a hero when the Left victory in the Spanish general election last month sent him and 30,000 other rebels of 1934 rollicking out of Spain's jails. This week he became a liberator when he wangled from Spain's Republican Premier Manuel Azaña "local autonomy...
Because German legal technicalities could be satisfied in no other way, a most unusual sentence was imposed last week in Schwerin, the home town of the new Nazi Martyr "Saint Gustloff." The prisoner, one Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
Wessel song, hailed "Our Martyr!" Another special steamed out of Munich and, over cleared tracks with all switches spiked, roared down toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...
...London office to keep up a place in the country, a cantankerous husband who had not had a job since the War. three growing children. Most of her family, most of her friends thought Claudia a wonder, gave her their admiring pity for being such a cheerful martyr. But women are hard to fool about women. Her partner Sal, her sister Anna saw through Claudia. One of her daughters was beginning...
With passing years the Hawaiian Government moved Martyr Damien's colony from Kalawao to Kalaupapa, some three miles away. Under the leadership of King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, Britons subscribed a granite monument for Damien's grave, a Damien Institute for leprosy study in England. Last year the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature appropriated $3,000 to care for the grave and the church. But the spot remained neglected of men, with few visitors until this week. Then, according to long laid plans, the remains of Father Damien were dug up, started on a journey half way around...