Word: martyring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in Norway thought that Arne Fjellbu had the stuff of a hero or a martyr. The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing. No one thought, when the Nazis first came, that he would ever defy them...
Paramount didn't borrow Warner's Bogart for a part that Bogart might have filled and they have done better with MacMurray who isn't quite so stony. Bogart makes a good detective, a good thug, and a good martyr, but the boy with the light comedy past comes through with the best performance of his career...
Kneeling thousands stared hard at two phials on the high altar in Naples' gothic Cathedral. The phials, people had been taught, contained dried blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city who died a martyr in the time of Diocletian (245-313). Last Saturday the hard, dark substance was due to turn to liquid, as it does the first Saturday of every May and every Sept. 19 if the outlook for Naples is good...
From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
...Silkeborg, Nazi military and civil headquarters for Jutland, work stopped and schools closed while 4,000 Danes shuffled silently through the hospital chapel where Martyr Munk's body had been placed. Flags were at half-mast until the Germans ordered them raised to the top again...