Word: stigmas
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...authorities were under no illusion that they had abolished the tribes' preference for ancestral occupations; but with the stigma of hereditary crime removed, they hoped to convince the tribes eventually that crime does...
...George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao, "we Chinese were the first race to drink liquor. That...
...that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still our stigma, then it is high time we got down...
...Force has tried to get private industry into developing aircraft armament, but with little success; businessmen are fearful of being tagged with the "merchants of death" stigma that haunted Du Pont for years. With Oerlikon's arrival, the Air Force hopes that other U.S. manufacturers will get into ordnance development and provide U.S. planes with the heavier firepower they need...
...always finds it necessary ... to put "local" and plebeian language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated to a great extent by a progressive educational system and improved social conditions...