Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote a semiserious letter to the producers, beginning: "Being endowed with normal mental faculties . . ." They paid his way to New York, quickly appraised him as a genuinely knowledgeable candidate whose "warmth" and "sparkle" made him an acceptable contestant. In no time he had mounted the program's cash "plateaus" by identifying flour in five breads for $16,000, five desserts for $32,000 (taxcut to $20,090), found himself with the option of going all the way. Getting ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take...
Tunisia (pop. 3,700,000), which is the smallest, happiest and quietest of the three French possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...
...these green lowlands, along the Pacific Coast, rise mountain ranges, mistily blue and sullenly beautiful, that cup seven sparkling lakes and top out in 33 symmetrical volcanoes, each with a puff of cloud caught eternally around its peak. Fertile volcanic soil six feet thick covers the high plateaus and shaded valleys; it is in the highlands that 80% of Guatemalans live...
Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...
...Pacific and Indian Oceans, unlike the Atlantic, would be divided into a number of small seas. Large undersea ridges or plateaus would be exposed forming new land bridges and continents between the Antarctic and other continents...