Word: mason-dixon
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...progressive, his stand on civil rights was positively liberal in a Border State that still retains many vestiges of segregation. At his urging, a 306-year-old antimiscegenation law was repealed, the state public-accommodations law was broadened, and the first state open-housing law south of the Mason-Dixon Line was enacted. Negroes were appointed to some high offices and, for the first time, to the Governor's personal staff...
...limousine and champagne and caviar to seduce the willowy government agent; even the Viet Cong would find that amusing. On the U.S. side, Wayne's self-conscious heroes penetrate into the Communist-base area by parachute and then traipse through forests that are obviously south of the Mason-Dixon line rather than...
...lbis, however, has far from dominated the hoaxes and scandals centering around the Lampoon building in Freedom Square, including a long history of hassles with courts and police due to charges of obscenity in their magazine, with such articles as "Desire Below the Mason-Dixon Line," a 1935 parody of Faulkner...
WHAT is the relationship between the Mason-Dixon line, the DMZ, the China Wall, the 38th parallel and the Berlin Wall? What do the words Realpolitik and denouement mean...
...helps him to his feet. The two quickly discover that they have some things in common-cunning and duplicity. The grifter is the Flim Flam Man, a wheezy, sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...