Word: plateauing
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...finally, the rampaging Institution trampled all over the popular belief of most U.S. citizens that the roaring economy, by giving the U.S. both guns and butter, has led the nation to a new high plateau of prosperity...
...gravest of all was the threat of the western finger, resting on Paoching and pointing across the Kweichow plateau to the Fourteenth's great central bases at Kweiyang and Kunming...
Even if the Japanese should push westward only to Kweiyang, 300 miles from Paoching, they would sever the main highways by which the Chinese and their allies had hoped to move war supplies into China from the new Ledo-Burma Road, through Kunming to Chungking. Across the plateau to the highways wove countless secondary roads and paths, along which the Japs had learned to route their advance...
...greatest show on earth" (according to informed critics who have seen it) is now in the 20th month of an amazing run. Scene of the show is a Mexican plateau near the Pacific, 200 miles west of Mexico City. Paricutin, the new volcano which erupted from a cornfield, has grown to a mountain some 1,500 feet high and shows no signs of weakening. Natives call it El Monstruo. Belching 2,700 tons of fiery rock a minute, the crater has over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching...
...honest poet has no choice, however, but to show the illusion-loving man-in-the-street that today the beauty he dreams of has become a Wellsian, moonlit scene of desolation-a "lava plateau . . . fissured with chasms" and dotted with extinct volcanoes. Instead of a credible faith, this frozen land offers nothing but a thousand contradictory ways of life, centered around the false face of "the huge stuffed bird of happiness" and the "black stone on which the bones are cracked." Only "among the ruins and the bones" can man hear "the real Word which is our only raison...