Word: stigmas
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Another British vicar, the Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas of Needham Market, contributed a little shocker of his own: no "social stigma" should be pinned on spinster schoolmarms, he thought, if they felt like having a baby...
...health officers estimate that there are at least 2,000 lepers at large in the nation, either unaware that they have the disease or concealing it because of the stigma. Most of Carville's patients (17 of them World War II veterans) are from Texas, Louisiana, California and Florida, the only states where leprosy is endemic. Leprosy, in early stages, is hard to diagnose, is often confused with syphilis. Research is handicapped by the fact that leprae bacilli cannot be cultured artificially and the disease cannot be reproduced in animals...
...said that America must immediately remove the "moral stigma" overhanging the entire issue and express a willingness to permit the entry of 100,000 displaced European Jews into this country...
Possible surprise starter of the approaching flag race may be the Mastodons of Eliot House. Still smarting under the Stigma of having a larger turnout for the chess team than for their football team, the Elephants were steering a middle-of-the-road course as Charlie Mains, former player for Boston University, put his charges through basic running plays studded with an occasional ringer...
...most progressive steps has been to bring cancer out of the back bedroom into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...