Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Tito into the Soviet orbit was highly perceptive, and displayed a rare insight into the subtleties of the new Kremlin approach to international relations. Americans must grasp the uncomfortable fact that Khrushchev is attacking the U.S. on its own grounds. By seeking to shed the most odious stigma attached to modern Communism, i.e., Stalinism, Russia purports to have seized the initiative in assuming a constructive, nonaggressive attitude toward the world's tensions...
...mastermind behind Averell Harriman. De Sapio controls almost all of New York State's massive 98 votes, is combing the hinterlands for more. He makes frequent trips to Washington to woo Southern legislators, leaves courtship in other areas to Harriman lieutenants who do not suffer the Tammany stigma...
...army over to Hitler. Now the party leaders are saying in effect that Stalin, not Tukhachevsky, was the traitor. The stigma of betrayal has been transferred from the army to the party. The army is now formally absolved from blame for the loss of millions of lives and countless treasures in the first phase of the war. The party is maneuvering to avoid blame by holding the mad Stalin responsible, but there is still no certainty that it will be successful in doing...
...shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked-in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations, the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat! The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal . . . The chief Republican liability [i.e., the stigma of depressions] has been ebbing-just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election...
...this is often impossible because, of 22 or so schools in the U.S. that train teachers to handle ex ceptional children, all but two schools are interested in training them for "the exceptionally handicapped, rather than the exceptionally bright." Added Caltech's Frederick Lindvall: "There's a stigma attached to being called a brain. The athletic department is much more successful than we are at singling out its exceptional students...