Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Teddy Roosevelt the Republicans have been under the stigma of being the party of yesterday. Until they can present bolder and less negative plans in this time of crisis they will not contribute much to the prosecution of this war. If America is to proceed under the best leadership to be found, the people must not be forced to decide the next election on political prejudice. To allow them to make a reasonable choice they must have the pick of at least two men of sufficient acumen and stature, during a term that will probably find America fighting...
...spend their spring training period in the ivy-covered Yale indoor cage is enough to make any College Flatbush follower reach for his smelling salts. Too long have the Durocher Dandies been subjected to a nation's ridicule; to foist upon this group of hale, uninhibited American youth the stigma of Gothic Bulldog culture is as dangerous a proposition as bringing Bill Terry unarmed into Ebbets Field...
This week all but 228 of the 600,000 unnaturalized Italians in the U.S. lost the stigma of being classed as enemy aliens. The 228 are those interned as "dangerous...
...members of the hall into two warring factions. The political issue soon faded into insignificance. After 32 of the 79 girls living in the dorm refused to sign a petition calling for the removal of their student leader, the majority labeled them the "dirty thirties," a name carrying the stigma of immorality...
Losing but one doubles match in the entire contest, Harvard's Varsity tennis team had no difficulty in taking the measurement of M. I. T. by a score of 8 to 1 yesterday afternoon on the Divinity Field courts. The Boilermakers, however, had much of the stigma of the defeat alleviated by the fact that only Sophomores and Juniors on the Tech squad were allowed to compete, since M. I. T. Seniors have already graduated...