Word: martyrizing
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...unexpected break in the last week, courtesy of Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who egged on the group of rowdy Republicans who jostled Johnson and his wife Lady Bird in a Dallas hotel lobby, spat at him, roughed up his wife's hair. Johnson therefore played the martyr's role like an old pro. Dallas County stayed as Republican as ever-Nixon got 149,333 votes, 23,972 more than Ike's 1956 mark-but in the central and east Texas rural areas and in some of the smaller Texas cities, the Democratic ticket picked up steadily...
Dead or alive, Assassin Yamaguchi was not good for many votes. But, as a martyr, Yamaguchi might yet inspire fresh violence from the small but dangerous band of Japanese who share his fanatical right-wing views and uphold the prewar tradition of political assassination. Last week a group of them went to the jail, presented the boy's parents with a burial coat, kimono and belt, then escorted the body of their hero home...
...dealers promptly called in a neighbor priest, who identified the box as a reliquary and the inscription as meaning Caput Sancti Felicis Martyr (the head of St. Felix, Martyr). When church officials cut the ribbons and opened the box, a yellow skull wrapped in red silk stared out at them...
Scientific tests of cloth and bone proved to the church's satisfaction that it was in deed St. Felix's head. The skull hidden in the other bust was identified as that of his friend and fellow 4th century martyr, St. Nabor. Tradition tells that the saints were Moorish soldiers in the army of the Emperor Diocletian, stationed in what is now Milan in about A.D. 303. Under repeated torture they refused to renounce their Christian faith. At last they were both beheaded, and their remains were eventually buried in Milan's oldest Christian cemetery. Turned over...
...three bullets from a pistol aimed by a wealthy White framer-businessman ended all that. David Pratt's attempt on Verwoerd's life consolidated Nationalist Afrikanerdom because Verwoerd became a martyr, prepared to sacrifice his life in his crusade for apartheid and White rule...