Word: plateauing
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Only in the desert and within the walls of their plateau, property of the tribe for centuries, do the Havasupai feel comfortable. Yet the world beyond Highway 66 is now beginning to shatter that security. The Grand Canyon Dam is rising up river, meaning water and power for California. The Havasupai lands won't be flooded, but their rapids will disappear and the familiar will be rendered strange...
Near Badajoz, on the bitter western plateau that the Spaniards named Extremadura because life there was so extremely hard, irrigation has transformed into 5,000 gardens of vegetables and cotton the chalky arid land whose owners were half starved a decade ago. In her new white stucco farmhouse, a wife pauses under a gaudy framed print of Jesus to explain why she has not yet bought a television set: "The neighbors would come in every night and track up my floor...
Brittle Glories. Typical is Valladolid (pop. 158,000), a grey stone city on the Castilian plateau. Known to the 8th century Arab invaders as Belad Walid (Governor's Town), it was for 450 years the court of Spain's Christian kings. Ferdinand and Isabella were married there in 1469; Columbus died there in 1506; Cervantes probably wrote the first part of Don Quixote there. But its glories were brittle, and Valladolid faded into a shabby market center and rail junction...
...refuses to supply a dictionary for his thickly poetical paintings, which went on view last week in Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. At a quick glance, they seem like wall scribblings, or graffiti, which suggest the vocabulary of dreams. A tryptich entitled High Plateau of Uncertainty is complete with contours numbered to indicate altitudes...
...compares biologically with changes in female monkeys' exposed "sex skin." A lubricant appears in the vagina. As excitement proceeds to the next phase, the pigmented rings around the nipples (areolae) become engorged and impinge upon the erect nipples. The breasts increase in size by 20% to 25%. ∙PLATEAU. A pink mottling appears over the chest, spreads to the breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal stages, to suggest an advanced state of measles." The mottling may spread over the abdomen, shoulders, and even the hollows inside the elbows. The labia minora become enlarged to about twice their normal...