Word: stigmas
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...contains nothing different from the usual offerings of sound money, economy, and freedom form government interference, his newly-found eloquence and his position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former president would now be well in the lead in the pre-convention regatta...
Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...
News was bad for Italy in the North, but there again no stigma was attached to regular army troops. Insistently from Addis Ababa went out a report that in a nine-day battle northwest of Makale, spearhead of Italy's northern advance, Ethiopian warriors had captured three mud villages, 18 tanks, 33 field guns, 175 machine guns, 2.605 rifles, had wiped out an entire brigade of the Fascist Oct. 28 Division, a loss of at least...
...still remember," declared Roosevelt II last week, "how these whom he denounced with righteous wrath winced under the stigma of such flashing epithets as 'malefactors of great wealth,' 'the wealthy criminal class' and the 'lunatic fringe.' He had a gift for pungent phrases...