Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
...Martyr or Menace...
Congratulations! TIME'S cover [Dec. 16] depicts John L. Lewis in flames-a martyr for labor...
...kept a straight face, refused to talk to newsmen. But his son, Vice President William Russell Jack, spilled the beans. Cried young Jack: "Bill was sore as hell about the gag rule. They would have fired him if they could, but they didn't want to make a martyr...
Goldsborough said Lewis really ought to be sent to prison. But the Justice Department recommended against a prison sentence. Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett, questioned by the judge, frankly said it would "make a martyr" out of Lewis. The judge yielded to this view...