Word: martyrizing
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...applaud his cool courage in the face of Death. All minor political discords were hushed in the paean of popular rejoicing at his escape. The Miami episode added one more asset to the large store Franklin Roosevelt already has to take into the White House: he is a martyr President at the start of his term...
...Chancellor Hitler ordered a State funeral at the Republic's expense (a supreme honor previously accorded by the Republic only to President Friedrich Ebert and Dr. Gustav Stresemann) to be held last week for one Joseph Zauritz, policeman, and one Eberhard Maikovsky, "Fascist Martyr," both of whom had been murdered since Hitler was made Chancellor...
...President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil...
...deceived her, even on his dying day. She knew that of all her sons and daughters Charles was the incompetent, but Charles was the one she loved best. She knew Kate Barlow, who had made a "misstep" in her youth, and whom she tried to help, was making a martyr of herself to no good end; she could have told Rachel her favorite granddaughter, many a sad, true thing about what was ahead of her. But Louisa always refrained. She said what she thought would help: when she really wanted to talk she talked to herself or to Bella...
...only generous to remember that they were equally sincere in following that spirit. No matter how misguided their ideal, as we see it, they supported their deal with valor and surrendered their lives to what they considered truth; hence, they are entitled to the name of hero and martyr. Heroism transcends the fleeting concepts of any single group or time. It must bespeak a noble answer to the call set forth in the past as well as in the present. That "those who died in 1914-18 were ... led to believe that they could attain a sweet and lasting peace...