Word: woodwards
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Wells finished fourth, covering the five-mile course in 26:00. Rob Failla, Chris Woodward and Benjamin all crossed the line within 22 seconds of Wells in sixth, seventh and ninth places respectively...
...time is coming, if indeed it has not already arrived, when the Southerner will begin to ask himself whether there is really any longer very much point in calling himself a Southerner." So the great Southern historian C. Vann Woodward began his seminal essay on "The Search for Southern Identity" in 1958. Woodward then and now answers his own question with a qualified, though brilliantly emphatic, yes. I can't and don't. The South as South, a living, ever regenerating mythic land of distinctive personality, is no more. At most, it is an artifact lovingly preserved in the museums...
...most rural of all the regions of the U.S., its people the least likely to move far from home if white and most likely to migrate northward if black. It was the one region, as Woodward so tellingly noted, whose people knew what it meant to lose a war and understood there was nothing inevitable about progress. It was, finally, the least changed demographically of all the nation's geographic subdivisions. Black and white Southerners alike had been relatively unchanged by new waves of migration, voluntary or involuntary, for more than 100 years. Regional population growth was minimal...
...also hope to return home with several million dollars in new contributions to the A.N.C. In New York a $2,500-a-ticket fund raiser hosted by Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee and Robert De Niro aimed to raise $500,000 from a celebrity crowd that included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Mike Tyson. At another gathering the same night in the Park Avenue apartment of prominent Democratic Party backers Arthur and Mathilde Krim, a crowd of well-heeled figures from the business world chipped in another...
...Harte continued the frustration for Harvard when he was half a second too slow to qualify for the finals in the 3000-meter run. In the mile, both Christopher Woodward and Nicholas Arena ran sub-4:20 times but did not have enough to kick themselves into the finals either...