I tried VikingOSX's method, and it worked. When I chose the ----- leader, the line stayed as dashes and did not turn solid.
A way to avoid having to tinker with the stops measure might be to align center (under Format/Text in the menu bar), enter the two words with two spaces between, and repeat the dash in the middle until the words are as far apart as you want them. Unfortunately, this doesn't produce a line of en dashes - instead, it combines them into em dashes. Unless you alternate dash-space-dash-space, etc. Here are what these two options look like.
Of course, you can use whatever character(s) you like for the middle line.