Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martyr's Grave. By week's end, the 600 sadhus who had gathered on the Jumna's banks had a martyr,* if not a program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted...
...Harvard cast its mantle of Veritas about the doughty frame of the nation's newest martyr. And when Leo hits Harvard it may truly be said, "O, suspension where is thy sting? O. Chandler, where is thy victory...
Strike & Out. In 1936 Lynch was fired for Newspaper Guild activity, became a martyr in the Guild's first big strike. It ended after 15 weeks, when Hearst hired John Boettiger as publisher of the P.L, and Boettiger later rehired Lynch. But as the years went by, Slim grew tired of shooting pictures of "broads sitting on the edge of a table." He also got tired of going out on stories with bright young reporters, "all excited and running around like mad." He had forgotten more angles than they would ever learn...
...fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...
Another, and possibly even greater danger, is inherent in legislation of this kind. Historical evdence is full of lessons on what happens when a minority group is put in the martyr class. Mr. Schwellenbach, or any other member of the Administration, can hardly relish the thought of having crucified Communism so that it might double its appeal to susceptible political groups...