Word: martyrizing
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Scroonched Down. Will Marshall was always saying that he would "sleep in the streets" rather than betray his principles. Thurgood says it too. But Thurgood is no fanatic, and he has no martyr complex. He tells two stories to prove...
Bundled into an airplane with his two wives and a favorite concubine, Ben Youssef was whisked off to exile, now lives in Madagascar in a hilltop hotel, where he daily complains of the cold. Uninspiring in office, Ben Youssef in exile has become a national martyr. Many simple Moroccans claim to see his face in the full moon...
...flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan, became in exile a martyr...
...Christian? Last week, with his wife and Hildy still in hiding, Melvin Ellis, owner of a Boston dry-cleaning firm, returned to Brookline. "I'm not a willing hero or martyr," he told reporters, "but I'll do anything to help the child. I am prepared to go to jail, if necessary, [in] protest against [this] law and its administration." The court granted the Ellises a temporary reprieve from a contempt charge, ordered them to appear in court July 18. Meanwhile police continued their search for Hildy...
Because his child was killed [by a teenage hoodlum] gives more reason than ever for Research Chemist William Blankenship to carry on his work to rid the street "jungles" of such criminals and the causes that contribute to their creation. The young victim is a martyr to the cause. For most every good and lasting cause, someone...