Word: stigmas
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...state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start out poor, and all have to battle the stigma of being outsiders...
...cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...
...there is a certain social stigma associated with the building. Dom Pantano, a transfer student placed in the overflow housing, said last week that when he tells people where he lives they say, "Oh, you live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...
...naturally to a man born to have been a woman, and Russell's next starring role will be more telling about his future as a leading man, so to speak. Russell will have to be selective about his roles in coming months if he wishes to avoid the typecast stigma...
...Kong, he finally went into business with a friend in Johannesburg Ford predicts that in the future white Rhodesians may have an even harder time relocating than he did. "It follows you like a bad smell," he says bitterly of his Rhodesian connection, "No matter what you say, the stigma persists...