Word: martyrize
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...office to the Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7, which tells how certain men took over tasks that the Apostles, busy evangelizing, had no time for-the distribution of food to the needy, for example. They were thought of as diakoni (servants) of the people. The first martyr, St. Stephen, was one of the original deacons. By the 3rd century deacons were an ecclesiastical force to be reckoned with; one text of the time called them "the ears, mouth, heart and soul of the bishop" because of their closeness to the laity. But eventually, blurred distinctions (and a growing...
...Spider's Stratagem concerns the workings of myth, the complicity of fancy and legend in history. The screenplay is an extrapolation from a short fiction by Jorge Borges, Theme of the Traitor and Hero, in which a historical researcher, investigating the death of his great-grandfather, a political martyr, discovers that the man actually traduced his confederates...
...well to remember that the worst possible thing for the two men in question is the all too familiar routing of petitions, and investigation, and martyr creation. Nothing could make it harder for Walsh and Sweezy than to have this storm of protest over a perfectly routine matter, and the sooner they put a quietus on the whole affair and the sooner the University issues a much needed clarification of its true position, the better it will be for all concerned. April...
...James Barber, who has tagged Nixon an "active-negative" President, one who gains little satisfaction from his accomplishments, has "a persistent problem in managing his aggressive feelings" and is engaged in "a hard struggle to achieve and hold power." Others see Nixon as relishing the lonely role of a martyr who suffers constant criticism for doing what he believes to be best for society...
...that time MacStiofáin, in the tenth day of his strike, was described by his wife Mary as a "dying man." MacStiofáin, boasted Provisional leaders, would become a martyr, like Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork, who was arrested at an I.R.A. meeting in 1920 and died in a British prison in the 74th day of a hunger strike. In MacStiofáin's place, they predicted, "a hundred other MacStiofáins" would rise...