Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long a rheumatic invalid, was placed gently into a hollowed-out tree trunk and slowly immersed in the sulfurous waters of a local spring. Suddenly she jumped out of the trunk and shouted, "I'm cured! I'm cured!" Last week, at White Sulphur Springs' stately Greenbrier resort hotel, the State Department quizzed and counseled 31 of the 53 Americans who had been held hostage in Iran. After three days of therapy and relaxation, however, none came out crying "I'm cured!" That may be because very few of them appear to have been sick...
...long separation probably did aggravate the problems of couples whose marriages already had been strained. A few of the returnees said that they felt the need for psychiatric help. There was some speculation at Greenbrier that perhaps the returnees facing the most serious readjustment problems were among those who had declined to attend, though many might just as logically have stayed away because they felt that they needed no help. None of the Marines showed up, perhaps because, as Marine Colonel James L. Cooper, commanding officer of all the Marine security guards, contended, "What some soft-living State Department type...