Word: martyrize
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...enough that raising campaign money for Bill Clinton has tarnished Al Gore's image as a saint. Now the question is, Will shouldering the President's agenda make him a political martyr...
RUBY RIDGE The year before Freeh arrived, tax resisters in Idaho wound up in a standoff against federal agents. Vicki Weaver and her teenage son were shot to death; her husband Randy Weaver collected $3 million in a wrongful-death suit and became a martyr in the militants' crusade against encroaching law-enforcement agencies. Six officials connected with the showdown were disciplined for "inadequate performance, improper judgment, neglect of duty," even though investigators found no actual misconduct. That might not have gone down so badly had Freeh not promoted as his No. 2 the supervisor of the whole operation, Larry...
...state in 1948, and for 49 years Palestinian children have gone to sleep to stories of the nakba, the disaster, that destroyed the village, the fig, the olive, the Palestinian Eden from which nakba meant exile. Tribal memory is the plutonium of revenge. The mother shows her son the martyr-father's bloody shirt and sings the song of blood feud: Make them...
...lest this critic sound completely dismissive of the holiday honoring a third-century martyr with a penchant for matchmaking, something actually did go sublimely right this Valentine's: the rousing production of "The Tales of Hoffmann" by the Dunster House Opera...
...testimony in the world's most boring soap opera than "a police detective testified about police detective work," America was sold on the story. All of a sudden this caricature of a murderer with his full repertoire of cheesy courtroom faces had become some kind of martyr to the virulent bigotry of American justice. Was there really no one else around who could fit that bill...