Word: teare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loyal friends. Last week Shor had no lack of money, either. For $1,500,000 he sold his leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940. Purchaser: William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, which plans to tear down Shor's place, add its 6,000 sq. ft. to an already cleared null building site facing Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd Streets. Likeliest use: a luxury hotel...
...coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly viligance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
Some men died quietly from wounds or exhaustion. Scores drank sea water and died in agony. The living fought to tear the life jackets from the dead. (Some did not even wait for the dying to die.) There were mass hallucinations: there was an island with a hotel, and somebody was telephoning but the hotel was full. Still, some threw off their life jackets and swam "to the island" and to their deaths...
Ever since tear-spouting Premier Mohammed Mossadegh brought his country close to economic ruin in 1951 by nationalizing its oil industry,* Iran has been trying to import as much foreign money and knowledge as possible. Thanks to the Western-minded Shah, Iranian law now offers solid safeguards to foreign investors. The question, after what happened in neighboring Iraq, is whether the politically discontent will wait for long-range economic benefits. Wall Street is making an impressive bet on Iran's peaceful future...
...second time I have found it necessary to tear a page out of TIME before taking it home. I wonder why any editor who is a human being could think of printing the "Victims of Baghdad" pictures...