Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
...White was torn down in 1913, replaced by the larger, more elaborate Greenbrier. But the resort continued to be known as The White. The C. & O. bought it, made it into one of the few U.S. luxury resorts to compare with Europe's swankier spas. Its 7,000 acres have three golf courses; there is a spur for private railroad cars, an airport for private planes. For five months, German diplomats and newsmen were quartered there before being exchanged for Americans held in Europe...
Last week the Greenbrier closed its doors, advertised all its furnishings for sale. The Army was getting ready to take it over as a hospital. Once more The White would house the sick and wounded...
...spacious halls of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where leisure-loving Southerners played before the Civil War, a lonely gathering of Nazis celebrated Christmas. They were among the 159 German and Hungarian diplomats and newsmen and their families who have been transferred to "The White" from Washington...