Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stigma...
...strongly religious country people who had been the bulwark of his support, they said, would be offended by his divorce and remarriage, and the younger voters, tired of the stigma Arkansas acquired for the Little Rock school crisis of 1957, would reject his old brand of polities...
...heedless users who are most likely to become serious marijuana abusers or go on to hard drugs. By lumping marijuana with hallucinogens, amphetamines, barbiturates and heroin, in fact, the law encourages young people to distrust warnings about those far more perilous substances. Pot prohibition gives sporadic users the stigma of criminal records and makes young people cynical about law in general...
...former ambassador to China during World War II, Fairbank was falsely labeled a Communist during the McCarthy era for advocating that the United States accept the fact that Nationalist China had lost the war. In the '50's, the stigma of McCarthyism forced him to recede from public life and continue his teaching at Harvard...
Originally conceived as a means of rehabilitating young offenders and of protecting them from the stigma of a criminal record, juvenile tribunals frequently have done neither. Judges have sent delinquent youths to understaffed reform schools for terms far longer than the jail sentences that adults would have received for similar offenses. In most states, young people can be deemed delinquent if a "preponderance of the evidence" indicates their guilt-the same standard used in civil suits. Applying a three-year-old precedent that entitles juveniles to "the essentials of due process and fair treatment," a 5-to-3 majority...