Word: lightless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet and his lady was the heatless, lightless. waterless hunting lodge, and even that had been rented out for weekends. Sir Adrian went back to London and bivouacked in a railway waiting room. His money running out, he got to thinking of the cheap London district he was raised in, before he had dreams of nobility...
This was the pilot who was going to steer the party through the lightless seas and black reefs of Communism...
Warden Duffy began one of the most dramatic housecleaning jobs in penal history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...
...master. Three of the Colleges are part Georgian, while the rest are a mixed design called "Standard Oil Gothic." Most students prefer Gothic because it has intimate courtyards and is collegiate. But many state on their College application blank that they don't want to live in the heavy lightless buildings. Location near fraternity row or labs is often an influential factor. Size is a matter of taste, and convictions of the master are quite important in a system whose success is dependent on masters' ability and interest...
...potent, apparently, is the magic of the lightless bus that a legend has arisen which quotes a bus driver who had come on the job in April as saying. "I'd be afraid to take the thing over the state line...