Word: glassless
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...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...
Characteristically, on the Sunday evening his promotion was announced, the new Primate preached in a bombed-out church in a working-class district in Hull. The bundled-up congregation shivered in blasts that came straight off the North Sea through the glassless windows. It was also characteristic of Dr. Temple-who, besides being a ranking church statesman, is one of the world's most learned theologians-that he should have published last week a popular book on Christianity and the Church in Britain's best-selling Penguin series. Sample quotations...
...England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...
...Austria-Hungary. From Russia the wave of the future threatened to engulf Europe as it later engulfed Germany under the Nazis. The Bolsheviks fighting on six fronts began a systematic terror that bagged some 3,000,000 victims in six years, while hungry ravens forced themselves through the boarded glassless windows of Moscow's Hotel...
...read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling the hands of a glassless watch...