Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago the local doctors had Tupá Mbaé jailed in Posadas for practicing without a license. This made Tupá Mbaé a martyr and hundreds made pilgrimages to see him behind the bars. Presently a sharper bailed Tupá Mbaé out of jail, began to exploit him. The medical profession finally forced Tupá Mbaé across the border into his native Paraguay, but there he found willing protectors...
...Minister of Agriculture went 37-year-old Miguel Primo de Rivera, only living brother of the Falange's founder and No. 1 martyr...
...nearly 30,000 regular officers in the pro fessional establishments include: Rear Admiral Felix Xerxes Gygax, Major Cyril Walter Martyr, Captain Andrew Hero 3rd, Ensign Strong Boozer, Lieut. Lee S. Pancake, Lieut. Jud F. Yoho, Lieut. Clarence Clapsaddle, Colonel Rollo Ditto, Cap tain Donald N. Wackwitz, Lieut. Theodore Clink-scales...
...garrulity does not make the play move. Then in the last act the stage takes fire with the struggle between the German and Rumanian, with Paul Lukas' remarkable portrayal of the German sadly, sensitively explaining why he has been willing to commit murder, why he is determined to martyr himself, if need be, for the anti-Nazi cause. In this scene Lukas certainly gives one of the great performances of recent years. Veteran Actress Lucile Watson is excellent as Lukas' American mother-in-law, whose head has been spinning around in diplomatic circles for years, but who finally...
Meanwhile, at City College Morris Schappes had become almost a campus martyr. Small, red-mustachioed, 33, Schappes had taught literature and composition to some 3,500 undergraduates in his 13 years at the college. Five hundred students turned out to cheer him at a rally, heard him cry: "We are the winter soldiers, and cometh late or cometh early, spring will bring us victory." Schappes denied the board's charges, declared it did not dare accuse him of teaching Communism in class. He was busy turning out statements for the press at the College Teachers Union office near Union...