Word: martyrizing
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...voters that he was being unfairly tarred with Watergate by supporters of his opponent, Congressman William R. Roy, 48. Many viewers apparently agreed with the message, and Dole caught up with Roy in the polls. The spots, Roy grudgingly concedes, have "to a degree turned Dole into a Watergate martyr or hero...
...feverish little mind is burning with a much grander scheme. Paul decides to kill muggers, and he murders a dozen of them before the police finally snag him. The cops know, however, that to announce his arrest and put him on trial would be to make a martyr of him, so they give him till sunset to get out of town...
...weaken America's ability to protect itself from corrupt officials. If he is guilty he should be convicted of his crimes, not only to provide a deterrent example and emphasize that no man is above the law, but also so that historians can never portray him as a martyr hounded out of office by political enemies...
...player is careful to complain that the courts are too slow, the cops too dumb. Moreover, he quickly becomes a pop-cult hero, photographed against magazine posters acclaiming the salutary effect his work is having on the crime rate. Even the police do not want to make a martyr of the man who has redefined the term "good citizen." When they catch him they merely deport him -to Chicago, which appears to offer him every opportunity to keep up the good work...
...Nixon's policy, always stressed the President's fear of a future backlash among such voters if they came to believe that the peace settlement was dishonorable. Many Republican politicians similarly fear that if Nixon's guilt is not firmly established, he will become a martyr (with disastrous political consequences for years to come). Nixon may hope to achieve such martyrdom by resigning after the House vote, sparing the country and himself a Senate trial. But some Congressmen argue that if a condition of his leaving office is that he publicly acknowledge -and not contest-the case...