Word: martyrize
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...what he pleases has been getting a nervous re-examination because of these incidents, but since nobody can figure out just where to draw the line on limiting freedom of speech, the prevailing view, in the words of London's Evening Standard, is that instead of making a martyr of "this pitiful and eccentric figure," Britons should ignore Mosley and "allow him to drown in his own paranoia." That seems to be the government's intention. At week's end, Home Secretary Henry Brooke declined requests to suppress fascist rallies, even though they seemed likely to result...
Dying Core. What had probably influenced the nine judges more than any possible deals, more than courtroom melodrama, was the desire not to create a martyr and to keep the French right from being totally alienated. Since the April trial of ex-General Jouhaud, condemned to death by the same tribunal, the atmosphere has changed. Earlier, there seemed strong possibility that Moslems and Europeans might eventually live together in peace in Algeria, and the S.A.O.'s terror seemed all the worse against the backdrop of this hope. By the time Salan went on trial, the situation had deteriorated...
...seat is waiting on the Minsk-Warsaw night express. Not even the Council of People's Commissars knows about the deal because, as Lenin says: "There are some people who are more Leninist than Lenin himself." Moral of the story: a disarmed antagonist is better than a political martyr...
...bazookas and machine guns. Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...
...David Gullette's portrayal of the archbishop, humanity overcomes certainty. He turns to arguing, and frequently seeks to persuade: he does not trust to the power of Eliot's spare poetry. His Becket is strong and individual; Eliot believed that the martyr was a spiritual ideal who had gone beyond humanity...