Word: martyrize
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Almost overnight, Miralles became a martyr-hero to the lawyers of Spain, who have never been noted for their radicalism. The powerful 8,500-member Madrid bar took up Miralles' cause. Risking contempt sentences of their own, 200 lawyers issued a joint statement protesting Miralles' punishment. When influential church leaders joined the protest, he was released on Franco's personal orders...
...fascism were a completed fact rather than a terrifying possibility. And when he speaks of "Martin" or "Malcolm," there is a touch of envy in his reverence. It is almost as if Baldwin would rather break the apron strings of his beautiful prose style and become a martyr himself. · R.Z.S...
...replacing the hated Protestant-dominated Parliament at Stormont was clearly a fragile feeling. Almost any incident could spark a renewed flare-up of hatred in the Catholic community-and last week, with a certain inevitability, that flare-up was touched off. By a single death, the I.R.A. gained a martyr, and the British were put on the verge of losing their latest bid to bring peace to bloody Ulster...
...East Germans decide to champion her cause? Although Angela Davis is a plausible enough successor to Che Guevara as an ideal Communist martyr, and undoubtedly evokes sympathy from many German leftists, the real explanation for the growth of her cult lies in the shifting pattern of East-West relations. Until recently the East German regime concentrated its propaganda attacks on West Germany, whose free society and economic prosperity have for years exerted an almost irresistible magnetism on Germany's poorer half. In the past year, however, as Moscow and Bonn have sought to establish better relations, East Germany...
...passionate nationalist is open to a charge of demagoguery. But when he had a chance to earn his martyr's credentials in 1958 by going to jail on a criminal libel charge, Nyerere chose to pay the fine instead, in order to avoid precipitating a crisis for the new colonial governor. Throughout the long transfer of power, he insisted: "We are fighting against colonialism, not against whites...