Word: stigmas
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Nehru thereby avoided the onus of releasing the P.W.s himself, and tried to place a cruel stigma upon the U.N.'s inevitable release of the anti-Communist P.W.s: if the U.N. let the prisoners go, as it had repeatedly promised them, it would be guilty of "violating the armistice." Nehru then asked his sister, U.N. General Assembly President Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, to hold a special Assembly debate in February on the Korean "deadlock," and any nation which had not responded to the invitation by Jan. 22 .would be considered to have accepted. In this Nehru went...
...Supreme Court ordered the men to live only with their legal wives, but most of the women have dispersed throughout the state since the Governor overturned the Short Creek variety of paradise. Now 162 children are left with unwed mothers to grow up in orphan homes with an ugly stigma. With only a lone bachelor and a monogamous couple left, Short Creek's fields of hay and barley will parch under the hot Arizona...
...following spring, Governor Phips pardoned 150 people who had been imprisoned on witchcraft charges. The fury of the mania subsided as quickly as it had come, when Puritan good sense re-asserted itself. Soon the witchcraft trials were but an ugly memory, though Puritanism has never lost the stigma which the witch-hunts placed...
...observers point out that the new plan contains little that the USSR might find offensive. Unlike the Baruch proposals of 1945 which the Russians rejected, the Eisenhower offer makes no attempt to monopolize atomic power in an international commission. But even though the plan has been freed from this stigma, there seems little hope for its quick acceptance...
While in complete agreement with your desire for an eighth House at Harvard, I must take violent and wrathful exception to your remarks about "the Claverly problem." What Problem? What Stigma? Obviously this is an instance of inaccurate reporting (highly dangerous in view of your national circulation) based, perhaps, on actual interviews with Claverly residents who like to eat breakfast and hate the long walk to the dining halls. It is well known that consumers of breakfasts are not trustworthy...