Word: plateaus
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...with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous costumes, not too awful a book. The one defect of such virtue is that by keeping to its sunny plateaus, Bloomer Girl never scales any peaks...
...learned about in a letter from a former MARCH OF TIME man now with the armed forces in Iran: "Recently I witnessed one of the great nomadic migrations that take place every year when thousands of human beings and hundreds of thousands of animals migrate from the southern plateaus to the mountains in the north (just as their ancestors did thousands of years ago). I became chummy with the Khan of the tribe, one Fatula Poor Satib. He asked me to autograph something for him. And what do you think he pulled from his robe as he sat astride...
...night long the caterpillar tractors have towed their trailers over the valleys and plateaus between Attu's high peaks. Today 125 of our dead are lined up for burial in the Little Falls Cemetery (named for a nearby waterfall) near Massacre Bay - one of our two graveyards on Attu...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
Last week the abundant life had not yet come to the tough, dry soil of Mexico's high plateaus. Under Avila Camacho, the leftist revolution which he inherited was now-by his deliberate design-wandering down the middle of the road. But, to an ancient land, now feeling the pangs and exhilarations of industrial pioneering, war had brought millions of U.S. dollars...