Word: tableland
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...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
Plan No. 2. Flying on surgical calls over Southern Rhodesia's 150.300 square miles of 4,000-ft.-high tableland, Sir Godfrey came to know more of his country than most Prime Ministers. Below him, on such trips, he saw a lush land which undulated like agricultural New Jersey, had the temperature of Southern California, produced grain, tobacco, oranges. It held gold, coal, chrome, asbestos. One-third of it was available to the right settlers...
...Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down in that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where the living Marines grew so tired they lay down beside their dead friends and slept under shell fire. Tunisia seemed another world, another time almost...
Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...
...left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter as quinine from the stalings of endless camels...