Word: martyrize
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...does one write about the death of a friend, a neighbor, a humanitarian, the mother of a martyr, a pillar of strength and a woman of great and quiet dignity? These phrases, though inadequate, are intended to describe the late Mrs. Alberta Williams King...
...death of Michael Gaughan, 24, an Irish Republican Army member and Catholic Ulster's newest martyr, in an English prison could have proved the spark. Sentenced in 1971 to seven years for conspiring to rob a London bank for the I.R.A., Gaughan began a hunger strike March 30 as a show of solidarity with two other I.R.A. hunger strikers, Dolours and Marion Price (see box page 38). His weight had dropped from 160 Ibs. to 84 Ibs. The British government said that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that Michael died after prison doctors injured...
...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...
Thus Peter Martyr, a Habsburg court chronicler and diplomat, greeted the Old World's first exaction upon the New: a stupendous hoard of ornaments, masks and ritual objects cast and hammered from teocuitlatl, "the gods' excrement"-as the Aztecs called gold-which Montezuma had given to the insatiable Cortes. It was shown in Europe in 1519, and nothing from it survives today. Like nearly all the gold artifacts that Spain dragged from the New World, it was melted down for bullion...
...free: John Kinsella of Indiana has won the event the last three years, but Olympic martyr Rick DeMont has a good shot. Tetlow lost to Haydon at the Easterns but should grab a couple of points, if he can come up with a closing kick...