Word: plateauing
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Crossville simmers quietly in the scrub oak of the Cumberland Plateau, nine bumpy miles from the neat little county seat whose name it shares. In a rough rectangle, 2,400 ft. by 1,100 ft., stretches the barbed-wire stockade, two 12-ft. fences of 21 strands...
Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...
Despite war's strains, the U.S. death rate is not rising. It began going up last September, soon reached a plateau 8 to 10% above the average for the past three years, has stayed there ever since. The Public Health Service reports that in 90 large U.S. cities during the first 16 weeks of 1943, 160,113 people died compared with 146,156 in the same period in 1942-an increase of 9.5% (city rates are not comparable to all-U.S. rates, because rural rates are always lower...
...South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...