Word: martyrize
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...martyr is among ye now whom you can call your...
...this kind of "sinlessness" and "purity" is arrogant pride, and I think we must say No to it. The martyr who offers himself meekly as a lamb to the altar is a fool unless he has fully taken into account the consequences of has sacrifice not only to himself but to the rest of the world. We cannot honor him for his stigmata or his purple hearts unless he has helped the rest of us while he got them...
...citizen when his parents were naturalized in the early 1950s. Though several Congressmen would like to see him arrested for sedition-or on any other applicable charge-Attorney General Ramsey Clark has opposed any legal action in the belief that the Government's case might make Carmichael a martyr and would probably not hold up in court. Thus, when-and if-Carmichael finally does return to Hell, U.S.A., the most that he is likely to suffer is confiscation of his passport. Reason: as a U.S. citizen he broke the State Department's rule against trips to Cuba...
...from Books, with part of a review of Wyndham Lewis' memoirs and part of one of a novel by William Burroughs. Checking further to see what might have been of special interest to the Viet Cong in that issue, we found it contained a story on the supposed martyr, Nguyen Van Be, who had been eulogized in the North for his heroic exploits before suddenly turning up in the South as a live defector, to the embarrassment of Hanoi...
...case, "I follow its rules." The government promptly announced that it would sit on the resignation, at least until the N.C.B. had finished its own report on measures to prevent future disasters. If Robens was to be the Aberfan scapegoat, he now stood as something of a martyr -and to many Britons the government seemed to be playing politics by delaying his exit. Robens seemed to agree: he promptly set to speeding up the N.C.B. report...