Word: plateauing
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...recent weeks he seems to have hit a plateau, while Murphy has been climbing uphill. Can George close the gap? Says he: "My job is to paint a positive picture. Most of the people already have their minds made up. I'm gonna try to talk to the undecideds. They are more interested in what a guy looks like. I think the overall impression is the big thing. If the undecideds think a guy is honest and on the level, he's ahead of the game. My big drawback is the song-and-dance-man label...
...first plateau I saw before me a wondrous space and some of those marvelous people at whom I dared not look too long for fear their Hollness should wither me. At the second plateau I sow glass doors right and left, and the beautiful holy music of Silence so overwhelmed me by its delight that I swooned. With the return of my mind that was shut off, I found myself at the third plateau. My Classmate, who was accompanying me and encouraging me with every footstep, whispered to me that First Class Citizens came in at this level to proceed...
...fourth plateau I noticed that my Classmate, who was behind me, was subdued, whether by the marvels of each succeeding plateau and the vision of so many Superior People or by the arduousness of our journey from the depths--I don't know, for she hardly spoke at all. Suddenly, as I neared the fifth plateau, she was no longer by my side, and I had only the Vision and Promise of Learning to draw...
...highest plateau of platitude, few will disagree with the goals of General Education. In a college which views a liberal arts education as two-pronged, general and departmental, it is clearly the role of the college to provide students with an antidote for the pressures of specialization and premature professionalism, to offer an education of breadth rather than depth (as in the departments...
South Viet Nam's most formidable fighting men are the aboriginal tribesmen whom the French called montagnards -hill people. Deadly hunters with crossbows and poisoned arrows, the more than 500,000 montagnards live in the vast "high plateau" that extends across one-third of the country. They are darker and tougher than the lowland Vietnamese, who consider the montagnards racially inferior, and scornfully refer to them as moi, or baboons. To protect them from land-grabbing lowlanders, French colonial administrators in effect made the central highlands a tribal reservation. When the French pulled out in 1954, lowlanders once again...