Word: martyrize
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...Last fortnight the word leaked out that George Belknap, the Democratic National Committee's director of voter analysis, had issued a secret party warning against "reckless schemes which could make Nixon a martyr and our campaign a smear ... A frontal attack on Nixon's character . . . would almost certainly lose votes...
...Martyr Complex? In 1941, after the Germans took over Yugoslavia, they established a puppet state of Croatia, over which they put fanatic Nationalist Dr. Ante Pavelic. Archbishop Stepinac announced the founding of the new state from the cathedral and served on its councils, thereby earning the enmity of the Orthodox minority who were persecuted by Pavelic. Stepinac, however, opposed the excesses of the Pavelic regime, refused to accept its forcible converts to Catholicism, sheltered fugitive Jews...
...serving a three-months prison term in Milan, Mich, for antitrust violations. I am very proud of my father's healthy and unbitter attitude toward this situation, and very ashamed of our judicial system, a weak link in our Government. If my father was serving as a martyr for a cause, I would feel differently; but never before have men been given a prison term for this violation...
...Paris, thousands of persons, many of them young people, braved wintry winds and paraded past the memorial to an unknown Jewish martyr in a demonstration to answer the rise of anti-Semitism in the world...
...Diary of Anne Frank. A strongly affecting attempt by Director George Stevens to make film sense of the heartbreaking diaries of the young martyr of Amsterdam (TIME, March...