Word: plateauing
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...shrilling of bugles, troops of the Communist Viet Minh poured onto a saucerlike plateau in the mountains of Indo-China one day last week and launched a crucial battle of the seven-year Indo-China war. Their objective: Dienbienphu, a huge French fortress 175 miles west of Hanoi...
...million worth of chemical plants, and $40 million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau in 1948, last year had a payroll of 8,000 and was a $100 million-a-year business...
Last month, in a brilliant airborne attack, the French Union forces seized the enemy base at Dienbienphu (TIME, Nov. 30), some 50 miles south of Laichau. Dienbienphu lies on a broad plateau with a good airfield, which the French soon put in condition and ringed with barbed wire and trenches. From this base they could keep in touch with Thai anti-Communist guerrillas by radio. When the enemy moved up his 316th Division from the southeast, in position to attack either Dienbienphu or Laichau, the French decided to let Laichau go. They evacuated the garrison (using part...
...that the cycle was now complete. The clubs, which had started as pleasure-bent groups of little import and which had swelled to become the leading center of activity in the College, had been stripped of much prestige, importance, and self-importance. The clubs have settled on the even plateau of the past seven years, with claims of service to members and no disservice to the rest of the College...
...curve of a girl's growing need for sex (or the breaking down of her inhibitions) rises only slowly in her teens,* keeps on rising slowly until she is 29 or 30. Even then there is no sharp peak: the curve levels off, leaving a smooth plateau until age 50 or 60. But the man's curve keeps on dropping, i.e., his need for sexual activity generally declines while the woman's stays fairly high. This, says Kinsey, is one of the difficulties he has found in many marriages. It is heightened by the fact that...