Word: martyrizing
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...should a writer, such as [Arthur] Koestler, having abandoned Communism, be considered a hero or martyr to the cause of liberty, while a writer who abandoned the cause of Fascism at the height of its power-and for the same reasons for which Koestler abandoned Communism-be considered a traitor...
...office in the Biology Laboratory these days sits an assistant professor of Botany who has hardly glanced at a microscope or fiddled with an amoeba for weeks. The assistant professor likes to work on his own research projects as much as the next man, but he has become a martyr to the cause of getting Harvard men into medical schools. As the professor in charge of Biology, he has been deluged all fall by pre-meds needing recommendations from science professors in support of their applications to medical schools...
...part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned over to the native clergy. When his death was revealed last week, it followed the pattern of his life; he was Maryknoll's first martyr to the Chinese Reds...
Even L'Humanité did not claim any success for Martyr Duclos' strike. In its pre-strike advice, it had failed to recommend any solace for wounds of the spirit...
From his puritanized city the monk denounced Alexander VI as a usurper. Alexander at first tried to bribe him with a cardinal's hat. Savonarola replied: "No [red] hat will I have but that of a martyr reddened with my own blood." After he defied a papal excommunication, his political enemies, assisted by the Pope's political friends, stormed San Marco, had him tortured and executed...