Word: fob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes down just fine with the people of Alabama, who last fall chose Denton, 56, as the first Republican to represent them in the Senate since Reconstruction days. "He's the most popular man in the state right now," says Bobby Davis, a top aide to Democratic Governor Fob James...
...times, it seems that Bryant can lave the same effect on the whole state of Alabama. Governor Fob James, who is far less famous than Bryant in the state, praises him as being "larger than life." Bill Baxley, Alabama's former attorney general, calls Bryant "the No. 1 asset of the state." He is certainly treated as though he were: two uniformed state policemen act as bodyguards and chauffeurs on game days. Bryant has achieved a pop-hero status. His face appears on T shirts and bumper stickers, and there are even postcards showing him strolling on water...
...false statement and a false premise is not doing the South or our nation a good service." Indeed, Reagan had compounded his mistake by getting his facts wrong; Tuscumbia is merely the headquarters of a branch of the Klan. Reagan apologized by telephone to Alabama Governor Forrest ("Fob") James, and once again his aides sheepishly tried to explain that their boss had not really meant what he said...