Word: stigmas
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...There will come a time when the stigma will be removed, when we will be able to marry the person of our choice without regard to color or race or religion, and with society's blessings. A time when persons of diverse backgrounds will marry and go unnoticed by the nation's news media, and the wagging tongues of our populace. When that day arrives, then we will indeed have won the battle against racial and religious intolerance...
...corporations have often found it difficult to recruit top foreign talent for their overseas executive suites. Lately, however, laboring for the Yankee dollar has begun to lose its stigma. Last week, in one of the year's more remarkable personnel coups. International Business Machines landed the Earl of Cromer, former governor of the Bank of England, as chairman of its subsidiary IBM United Kingdom holdings...
...Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...
Horrified Epicures. French doctors still prescribe it as a health food: it is low in fat-a prime consideration for liver-conscious Frenchmen-and high in protein and minerals. But yogurt has long since transcended the fad-food stigma. Though epicures gag at the thought, some Paris restaurants serve it at dessert time, right alongside the Brie, Chevre and Camembert...
...stigma of the earlier conflict remains, but the City is no longer strictly divided. In the winter of 1966, for example, the Cambridge City Council spawned a feud which dug deep into the City's political traditions and demonstrated that the old forces had lost much of their strength. The conventional political alignment had always pitted councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (a "good government" organization) against so-called independents, the non-endorsed councillors...