Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caller number 10 to Fob James' radio call-in show is upset. a huge cross that stood on state-owned property along a highway in Gulf Shores, Alabama, was taken down under a federal court order, and Caller 10 wants to know how to get permission to put it back up. Now, Fob James has a lawyer right here in the studio to advise on pesky issues like church-state conflict. But James doesn't turn to his lawyer. He just leans into the mike and issues marching orders: "Get your cross, just like the one that was there...
Heck, he's Fob James. The Republican landslide that transformed the U.S. Congress last fall also ushered in a gaggle of ardent G.O.P. conservatives in state capitals around the country. But James, 60, is more a throwback than a young zealot. He has spent his first seven months in office loading up one discarded policy of the Old South after the other and lobbing them at Alabama's moderates, minorities and, yes, at the federal judiciary. "We are going in the same direction as the rest of the country, but we are more extreme," says Auburn University professor Wayne Flynt...
...begin understand this issue by setting the stage for the debate. Legislative and law enforcement officials in many southern states have undertaken serious discussion of chain gangs for several months. Among the first to publicly endorse chain gangs was Gov. Fob Edwards of Alabama. The recently-elected governor appeared on national news broadcasts to outline his plan, already partly implemented, for reinstatement of chain gangs in the Alabama prison system...
...that reached its zenith with the 1932 film exposa I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while still linked to their colleagues...
Even plays' titles help to provoke discussion--kiosk scanners must confront loaded and sometimes uncomfortable titles like "FOB" (Fresh Off the Boat). "Yellow Fever" and "The Trial of One Shortsighted Black Woman...