Word: retreater
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...long-awaited knock on the door finally came for Josef Schwammberger, one of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals. The ex-SS officer offered no resistance when Argentine police arrested him at his Cordoba retreat, 536 miles north of Buenos Aires...
...cavalry brats, the years between the wars are seen through a golden haze. Jane Wilson Cooper, daughter of the late Colonel Garnet ("Bill") Wilson, a 40-year cavalryman, recalls a "marvelous sense of security when you heard the bugle call tattoo or the gun was fired for retreat. It was the Depression, but we were never aware of not having money. What I remember is fox hunting at Fort Oglethorpe, not being broke." Her voice, these years later, carries enormous pride at being family to an elite corps of warriors...
...soon as plans for the summit were announced last Friday, speculation began on where it would be held. Locations mentioned included Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, and Williamsburg, Va., the colonial capital in which world leaders held an economic summit...
...most part, Heritage USA was about as inspiring as Disneyland. Witnessing the thousands of sincere believers (a.k.a. naive rednecks) who filled this South Carolina Christian retreat, I was treated to a much better performance than watching the PTL Club...
...drove around the entire 3000-acre retreat, past the swamp to be developed into time-share condominiums, past the children's petting farm and the house Billy Graham was born in (it was relocated there), past the Bunkhouse Hotel where believers can get a three-day vacation every year for the rest of their lives for a one-time donation of only...