Word: martyrizing
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...pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order him to go?) and his suppressed love for the tragic, his eternal longing for Valhalla, would be satisfied too (for did he not die a martyr for all public traffic ordinances, laws and regulations he loves best...
Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy left behind him in Budapest mobs (probably Communist-led) which had demonstrated against him with placards reading: "Mindszenthy wants a kingdom. Hang him on a tree." The Archbishop, said Hungarian Minister of Justice Stefen Riesz, "will not be arrested, as the government refuses to make a martyr of him, as he strongly desires...
...Martyr's Crown. But as the early Mormons moved westward, across Ohio to Missouri and then to Illinois, harried from Zion to Zion, sometimes tarred and feathered, sometimes killed in skirmishes with gentiles, Impostor Joseph Smith came close to being a prophet. Smith (Biographer Brodie believes) gradually hypnotized himself as well as others. He saw himself now as a true Moses, and at the end, faced with the choice of flight or death by lynching, he wavered, then took death and a martyr's crown...
...refined rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
...pneumonia, culmination of a long illness begun in a German concentration camp; in Cracow. Wise, independent self-educated Wincenty Witos teamed with Marshal Josef Pilsudski and Ignace Paderewski to form the Polish Republic after World War I; later forced into exile by the reactionary Pilsudski, he became the martyr of Polish peasantry, returned to his people during the 1939 crisis, became their best-loved, most trusted statesman...