Word: plateauing
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...trip from the supply base to the Huk stronghold on Mt. Dortz-a 500-acre plateau, 4,000 feet high and only 15 miles from the U.S.'s Clark Field-usually takes the tough, nimble Huks eight to ten hours. With David Jones, who was constantly stumbling and slipping, it took 17 hours. "We never hit a public road, just trails, and there was no stopping except when it was time...
Reports from Burma last week said that several thousands of Li's men recently thrust into lofty Yunnan (see map), at one point stabbing 50 miles deep. Communist regulars counterattacked sharply, last week reportedly engaged the Nationalists in skirmishes on a 6,000-foot-high plateau 200 miles southwest of Kunming, capital of Yunnan. In retaliation for the ready welcome which some of Yunnan's peasants gave the Nationalists, Communist executioners in the province shot 1,500 "traitors...
...last week panic had passed. Prices appeared to have leveled off. If the plateau was high, nevertheless it was level, and if any trends were discernible, they were down, not up. Manufacturers had more goods than they could sell. Almost everything looked safe-at the very moment when real inflationary pressures are just beginning to heat...
...When women began riding in open automobiles before World War I, they had to discard their majestic hats, crowned with glossy ostrich plumes. That spelled disaster for South Africa's ostrich farmers, who fed and plucked 1,000,000 ostriches every year. On the sun-baked Little Karoo plateau around Oudtshoorn, ostrich capital of the world, farmers killed their birds by the thousands, stripped the rich dark meat from the carcasses for stew. Flocks dwindled to 20,000 birds, and many of their plumes went into feather dusters...
...they were a little annoyed when, before sunrise next day, a brighter, louder explosion thundered out of the barren plateau, waking sleepers with a start, and setting the burglar alarms ringing in North Las Vegas. "What are they trying to do-make us click like Geiger counters?" grumbled a housewife...