Word: plateauing
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Some patients begin well, then reach a "plateau," stop losing. Only then, as a rule, does Dr. Cutting resort to thyroid. Generally he avoids it because, except in doses large enough to be dangerous (e.g., to the heart), thyroid is less effective than diet...
...gold was discovered in a humid, feverish valley on the northeast coast of New Guinea, about half way between Salamaua and Buna. Men rushed into the valley, an opposite in every way to the Yukon. To get their gold out, they built an airfield at Wau, on a plateau 3,000 feet high...
...lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready. As he descends the other side a Jap dummy swings out at his right and must be bayoneted. A shrieking jungle fighter closes in from the rear and must be grappled with. A machine gun opens fire. The trainee must fall, heave a hand grenade...
...covey of pigeons fluttering into an alley, a squadron of U.S. light bombers swooped down through the North African mountains. The field on which it lighted was bare of anything that would identify it as an airdrome. But trucks began to arrive with equipment. Men swarmed over the plateau. Within 24 hours of their landing, the bombers were off on their first mission...
...undulant plateau before Stalingrad, the Germans and the Russians waged one of the great battles of history. Upwards of 1,000,000 men, many thousands of guns and tanks, many hundreds of planes met in and over the gentle valleys and the rolling hillocks of the steppes northwest and southwest of the city...