Word: plateau
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...selves to make room for the new Beatles incarnate. And there is some truth to it. Without having lost any of the genial anarchism with which they helped revolutionize the life style of young people in Britain, Europe and the U.S., they have moved on to a higher artistic plateau...
...arable land, is used to grow crops. Over the next three years, the Brazilians hope to plant 2.5 million more acres with wheat, sugar cane, soybeans, rice, vegetables and fruit. Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into the fertile but undeveloped cerrados savannah region in the central plateau. In one area, the government is giving away 1,250 acres to each of 150 homesteaders...
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...high plateau of papal collecting and patronage came in the 16th and 17th centuries. It lasted from the pontificate of Julius II (1503-13)-who commissioned the frescoes in the Stanze from Raphael and the Sistine frescoes from Michelangelo-through the reign of Clement VIII (1592-1605). In those years the most vivid and impressive aspects of papal taste came to their highest pitch, sometimes nearly bankrupting the papacy with the mania for the Antique, the demand for vast fresco cycles, fountains and pharaonic tombs, and the general love of lapis lazuli and gold...
Instead of Rio de Janeiro, Air Force One landed Tuesday night in Brasilia, the oppressively bland and businesslike capital city planned and built from scratch on an isolated plateau during the late 1950s. "Your elections Nov. 15," Reagan said on his arrival, "demonstrated Brazil's confidence in itself and stability in freedom...