Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Powers this week were still trying to kill Hermann Goring. The one-time Reich Marshal's suicide had cheated the Nürnberg gallows; now fat Hermann's secret satellites were glamorizing his role of Nazi martyr by circulating a probably faked version of his dying "appeal to the German nation." The cleverly phrased document turned up everywhere - mimeographed, printed in the ancient Gothic lettering that Germans love, even as a wrapping for German meat rations. In it, Goring ostensibly invited his countrymen to sabotage the peace; justified bombings but weaseled on torture; said: "Try to forget...
...Martyr Complex." A month later Stepinac again criticized Tito's systematic efforts to discredit and disrupt the Catholic Church. He was jailed for 17 days, then summoned to Tito's presence. Said the Marshal of the Archbishop: "I consider that he suffers from a martyr complex...
Communists, knowing that the Government would have to oppose squatting, and thus be in the embarrassing position of Socialists protecting private property-and "luxury" property at that-are pointing every maneuver to draw Government penalties upon helpless, individual, deluded squatters, who constitute the finest martyr material in recent history. The Government, equally aware of this tactic, is sweating to keep the heat off the little folks and turn it on the Communists who conceived and executed the campaign. But that, in turn, lays the Government open to charges of political reprisal for political purposes-a dangerous position to take...
...autobiographical Out of the Night, U.S. leftists damned him as a former Gestapo agent (he said he had joined to bore from within) and a tattletale Communist who had owned to some strange deeds before his apostasy. Plain citizens began to wonder whether he was a fraud, a martyr or a marvel...
Connecticut's Democratic politicos puzzled over whether they had inherited a has-been or an up-&-coming martyr in Chester Bowles. While Bowles cruised in a 39-ft. yawl off the Atlantic coast with his bittermost memories of Washington and OPA, Connecticut Democrats last week worried over a more specific question: did energetic Chester Bliss Bowles intend to try to be governor of Connecticut or would he go after a seat in the U.S. Senate...