Word: martyrizing
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Little Johnny Adams turned to page 16 of the New England Primer. There it was, the picture of 16th Century John Rogers, the Dissenting martyr, burning gruesomely at the stake while his nine children looked on, their tears making a puddle at their feet. Eagerly Johnny took up his pen and in a moment a fine crop of cabbages sprouted on the well-irrigated spot...
Dust-laden shafts of sun cut through the barred windows of Bordeaux's Hotel de Ville last week and shone on grim rows of Communist faces. The comrades were out to consecrate a new party heroine martyr and saint. Raymonde Dien, a young (21), tough and unlovely Communist functionary of Tours, was up for trial on a charge of obstructing a military train bearing arms for Indo-China. The party press hailed her as the "little angel" and the "delicate heroine of peace." Some of the comrades spoke of her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and doubtless...
...thoughtful, intelligent wife, Celia Johnson displays just enough martyr complex to make her role appealing but not maudlin. Though her rational plans go awry and she cannot maintain a marriage based on mutual need rather than love she is a refreshing and stable antidote to the decaying lovers...
Whatever the facts, many Peruvians would surely regard Negreiros as a martyr to his political faith. With only three months to go before national elections, Odria could boast that he had finally decapitated Aprismo. But it looked as if its ghost would haunt him for years to come...
...Saints) is one M. Valentine. He was a Roman priest who loved brotherhood (and sisterhood), but unfortunately he lost his head over the whole matter on February 14 in either 269 or 278 A.D., depending on what book you look it up in. This explains why he became a martyr and did not die a natural death...