Word: plateauing
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...party will trek far to the north west to the upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...
...cities police were called out to control queues. On the platteland (plateau) farmers and their families left by ox and donkey wagons the day before, jolted through the night to the nearest town...
Turkey's importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...
Captain Ritchie Clark described the initial attack on the command post on the plateau: "The Japs would come at us yelling like Indians and our men would shoot them at 30 or 40 yd. Whenever one was wounded he would grab a grenade and blow himself up. There were about 200 of them up here and the Americans killed around 130 in that first charge. The other 70 came back Sunday morning and we were ready for them. They saw it was hopeless and began holding grenades against their stomachs and blowing their guts out. In all we lost about...
When the American and British crews did strike, they ranged widely. They again raided the Naples docks. They flew over Sicily's western plain, an obvious point of amphibious invasion. They left their bomb-pocks on the hilly but approachable southern coast. They crossed the central plateau, which looks mountainous on the map but is a region of high wheat fields. They roared above the lemon and orange groves of the precipitous northern coast. On the port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down...