Word: plateauing
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Ritchie an almost perfect setup for a cleanup. With some forces chasing the Germans beyond Bengasi, Ritchie was maneuvering this week to wipe out the Axis units on the Barca Plateau...
Units of Rommel's forces that had not retreated beyond Bengasi were caught on the Barca Plateau. This was the area the Axis had hoped to defend to block the advancing British. They apparently stumbled over it in retreat, for this week Rommel's armored units and the Italian infantry appeared to be sprawled from Cyrene toward Tripoli...
...against Japan. The January 1942 issue of FORTUNE tells why: "A buffer State among five mutually jealous nations that might be swept by political cross winds of the present war...Bolivia has all the characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source for the U.S., Bolivia ordered added precautions against sabotage of U.S.-bound metals shipments...
...escarpment is empty. It is a plateau covered with scattered scrub and occasional boulders, and here & there it is cut by dry streambeds called wadies. The sun has just come up, and each stone and bush throws a long shadow...
...Forgotten Village (Kline; Mayer-Burstyn) is a documentary film of integrity and beauty, the story of the triumph of modern medicine over an archaic female herb doctor in the squalid village of Santiago, high in the mountains of Mexico's centra! plateau. Its post-production history is the triumph of reason over the paleolithic prejudice of New York State's three-man-four-woman board of movie censors, who banned the picture because it was "indecent . . . inhuman...