Word: martyrizing
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After frustrating the coup attempt, officials hastily formed a Headquarters for Coordinating the Neutralization of the Conspiracy and launched a nationwide man hunt. The government's actions were accompanied by popular frenzy. Mobs jammed the streets to denounce the conspiracy and mourn their latest martyr: Sergeant Mohammed Esmail Ghorbani, killed by one of the accused plotters, whom he was seeking to arrest...
During that period, he watched Lenny become a storm center, a genius and a martyr. He saw Joe Ancis go into the construction business. Rodney had two children, Brian and Melanie, but his marriage was rocky and finally fell apart. Rodney raised the kids...
...even without the heavyweight title Ali was the champion. The People's Champion. The right people's champion. Ali was the symbol. The martyr. "I am God," Ali once told Joe Frazier. Frazier didn't believe...
POOR SHEILA. Even though trust has evaporated from their marriage, she still loves Bob too much to leave him; so with a martyr's sense of duty, she agrees to let nine-year-old Jean-Claude visit them for a summer month on the Cape (where else) while French friends try to keep him out of a state orphanage...
...BOTTOM line is that Canadians must confront an election a mere six months after going to the polls. Attitudes in Toronto this week ranged from disgust to, at best, martyr-like tolerance. The May 22 results clearly showed a polarization along East-West lines. The Liberals dominated Quebec, the Tories swept the West and the NDP chipped away across the country. Conservative primacy in Ontario swung the scales to the Tories, but this time a surge in Liberal sentiment seems certain in Ontario...