Word: martyrize
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...last month of Maoist Demonstrator René-Pierre Overney, 23. Overney, fired by Renault for political agitation, was shot by the plant's chief of security, Jean-Antoine Tramoni. 25. when he and other Maoists charged the guards at the factory's gates. Immediately, Overney became a martyr for the country's 30,000 squabbling leftist revolutionaries, who have not had a popular common cause since the riots of May 1968, which brought Charles de Gaulle's government to the brink of collapse...
Ashore, however, he proved a master realist in the war of words that followed his dismissal. An admiral and one of the Navy's most brilliant captains went to bat for him - and eventually struck out. Until this happened, however, Arnheiter appeared to be some sort of martyr. He had tried, he said, to fight the war and bring the sloppy old Vance up to scratch, only to be sabotaged by a mollycoddle crew and a wardroom full of intellectuals and Vietniks. Arnheiter even dreamed up a word to describe what had happened to him: he had been "Vanced...
LENNY. More masochist than martyr, pornocratic Lenny Bruce nonetheless mainlined some painful truths into the U.S. psyche. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a herculean performance...
Before the chant died, however, Newton and the Black Panthers had become an almost mythic element in the conflict that separates black American from white, the dissenters from the accepting. For a time, depending upon the point of view, Newton was either a radical martyr or a symbol of the winds of destruction. In the end, he was both and he was neither; symbolism overtook reality. In the passions on both sides, there were but few who remembered the death of one man, or the four years of anguish and uncertainty suffered by another man charged with that death...
...jihad, or holy war, with India. An army colonel insisted there were no Pakistani losses whatsoever on the battlefield. His reasoning: "In the pursuit of jihad, nobody dies. He lives forever." Pakistan radio and television blared forth patriotic songs such as All of Pakistan Is Wide Awake and The Martyr's Blood Will Not Go Wasted. The propaganda was accompanied by a totally unrealistic picture of the war. At one point, government spokesmen claimed that Pakistan had knocked out 123 Indian aircraft to a loss of seven of their own, a most unlikely kill ratio of nearly...