Word: mason-dixon
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This year was no different, as coach Dave Fish worked his troops hard all winter, but emerged with only a 2-3 dual match record and a fourth-place tourney finish on the whirl-wind spring break tour below the Mason-Dixon line...
South of the Mason-Dixon line, the onslaught of winter was no less vicious. A sleet storm came roaring out of Texas at midweek. In such cities as Birmingham and Memphis, the storm disrupted traffic and closed down schools and businesses. In Atlanta, where there are still fresh memories of a 1973 ice storm that downed trees and knocked out power lines for a week, the ominous reports emerging from Alabama and Tennessee sent downtown workers hurrying home early...
...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...
...term has infiltrated the language, carrying nuances not found in Fowler's Modern English Usage, shadings understood instinctively by Southerners but often baffling to armchair linguists beyond the Mason-Dixon line. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote this report on what is-and is not-a good...
...variety. Huge textile mills and wood-products plants have long played a key role in the development of the region, and they still do. But recently a host of newcomers, including many well-known corporate giants and some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift by building its first U.S-based integrated assembly plant there...