Word: martyrizing
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...ller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully asked to serve in Hitler's navy...
...used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...
There were other parties, most of them sliver-sized. The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for President ever since its formation in 1869, the Socialists since 1892. From 1900 to 1920, the Socialists' candidate was Eugene V. Debs, "martyr" of the Pullman strike. He polled 919,799 votes in 1920 (when he was in jail for sedition), won no electoral votes...
...took no part in the Spanish republican movement, far less in the revolutionary uprising of the Left. He resented the political demonstrations that were made in Barcelona in 1935 on the occasion of one of his plays. Inevitably, however, Lorca's assassination made him a hero and a martyr of the republic. Whether he knew it or not, he was an enemy of organized oppression and stupidity, and fittingly met his death at its hands...