Word: stigmas
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Once upon a time, when both morals and money were harder, bankruptcy was bad. Wastrels used to be bailed out by their better-off relations in order to save the family name from the stigma. But in these days of looking-glass economics, bankruptcy is growing more and more fashionable as a way to settle one's debts and land some more credit...
...fine to give food and drugs to a needy nation, but please, not with the stigma of letting some rat like Castro force us to give it to him as tribute...
...matter of great concern to all that TIME, in all fairness, remove the stigma of "Civil War profiteer" from the reputation of a fine and honorable...
...hopefully helped to make more dramatic and public the fact that not all the recently accumulated evidence connecting cigarettes and cancer has been wasted, that its influence continues to be possible. The same sort of thinking that earlier in this century emancipated cigarette smokers from the stigma of immorality ought now to show them that their habit is almost certainly dangerous...
Removal of the disclaimer affidavit from the National Defense Education Act by Congress yesterday at last removes the stigma of special suspicion from students and scientists on whom the requirement was imposed. Recipients of NDEA loans and National Science Foundation fellowships were required to swear that they had no memberships in subversive organizations. The new law, finally approved by voice vote in the House yesterday, instead provides for criminal prosecution of subversives who accept the Federal funds...