Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same as changing the color of your nail polish. It doesn't have any more stigma than that...
...that it had its independence and was free of the stigma of imperial control, the newborn Federation of Malaya decided to try its own hand at bringing an end to the costly nine-year-old jungle war against Communist guerrillas. It issued a "new and final" amnesty offer to the 1,800 terrorists (down from 8,000) still left and, just to make sure everyone gets the message, will drop no less than 12 million leaflets from R.A.F. planes. Terms: no persecution of terrorists who surrender, regardless of their past crimes; restoration of civil rights to those who forswear Communism...
...Stigma & Scorn. The Watkins case, wrote Warren, "rests upon fundamental principles of the power of the Congress and the limitations upon that power." The Chief Justice therefore delivered a professorial lecture on parliamentary history, ranging from the 17th century British inquiry involving Popish Plotmonger Titus Oates* ("the infamous rogue") through the historic lawgiving of Sir Edward Coke, James I's Lord Chief Justice, to the U.S. Senate investigation in 1859 of John Brown's seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal...
...when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...
...Said Lecky, "Of that Byzantine Empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, with scarcely an exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...