Word: martyrizing
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...stand together against their common foes reported demand by the Socialists the premier resign impresses us realistic and utterly dangerous. question is not one of right It is a matter of confidence in the process of government versus with the parliamentary procedure this sense, Asanuma should not be a martyr of the Socialist cause. he is a martyr of the constitutional of democracy in Japan. Before comfortable silence might again vail under the tyranny of the left right, those who have once learn a lesson of such a tyranny should forth and dedicate themselves arduous task of maintaining a Parliamentary...
...existence. The issue is the execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a picket line. The facts make any judgment questionable, but to John, of course, Krasnitz is simply a murderer, and to Herta he is a martyr of the class war. As stubborn husband and angry wife sit before the television set waiting for Krasnitz to walk his last mile, the author examines his characters in two long microscopic flashbacks that take up the remainder of the novel...
Condemned to die eight months ago for shooting his African houseboy (who had stoned Poole's dogs), Poole became a near martyr in the eyes of many white Kenyans who recalled his services against the Mau Mau, and worried over what would happen to his aging parents and his two young children. In Nairobi, Poole's parents circulated petitions for clemency, addressed to British Governor Sir Patrick Renison, and collected more than 25,000 signatures, including many from Africans and Asians. Even African Nationalist Tom Mboya, though he would not sign himself, agreed not to influence his fellow...
...misused police complied, then sallied forth and chased the half-blinded Zengakuren diehards away from the Diet area. By dawn, the city's hospitals had treated 600 police and 270 students, and for the first time since the anti-treaty demonstrations began five weeks ago, Zengakuren had a martyr-a 22-year-old coed trampled to death by her own comrades...
Next day Shakhnoub lamely explained that he was an epileptic, subject to periodic and unpredictable seizures. He had not been aware, he said, that he was being used as a martyr. But the progovernment, moderate leftist Al-Zaman published a different story. Shakhnoub had been hired by the Communists for five dinars (about $14) to play dead, said Al-Zaman. The women mourners got considerably less-about $1.50 apiece...