Word: martyrizing
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...that act a felony. Last week he came up for sentencing in New York's Federal District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain a new draft card, carry it as required by law, and submit to induction if drafted...
...Coney Island. They're foreign. Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook-places like that, where you can't get foot-long hot dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Professor Barrow. Not true. As long as there's a Brooklyn, there'll be a great, great...
...Yale defense is quite shoddy, and Fessenden usually looks like a martyr on the ice, making dozens of fine stops in the course of a game. Even though the defensive combinations have shown sparks of life -- against Dartmouth and Princeton -- the Crimson should be able to get through to Fessenden consistently...
...Mooney, not money. Meaning Tom Mooney, labor's biggest martyr of the '20s and '30s, sentenced to death when convicted with Warren K. Billings of killing ten people in 1916's San Francisco Preparedness Parade, eventually released from prison...
...rights tied tot he struggle for Negro rights, a kind of human revolution." The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, she reminds people, brought together women who were refused seats at an anti-salvery convention in London. Mrs. Friedan foresees "institutional improvements" that will "help women avoid martyr-like choices;" business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will finance reliable day-care nurseries for working mothers. She sees this glorious revolution...