Word: unlit
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...serve food and drink. The water supply was affected in some areas, and cell-phone calls weren't going through. Furthermore, Brazil is a nation where high crime rates have bred fear and suspicion, and so huge numbers of people stayed home, keeping their distance from the sinister, unlit streets. (Read about Rio's crime problem and the Olympics...
...golfer. John Kennedy was known for low scores and a graceful swing. Ronald Reagan, whose scores were a state secret, putted down the aisle of Air Force One. Bill Clinton established a reputation for fudging his score - cheating, some said - in rounds with campaign donors while chewing an unlit cigar on the tee. George W. Bush played the way his father H.W. did, like a race against time, until the last years in office, when the son banned himself from the game because he didn't want to send the "wrong signal" to the mothers of the Iraq-war dead...
...Then he walked in, beard unshaven, looking distraught. Earlier, one intern had told me she’d heard that he had been laid off. He quickly gathered us in an unlit office (with some sunlight) to confirm the news...
Stanley Hoffmann sat quietly in his unlit office, surrounded by piles of books. “My knee is in a very bad mood today,” he said into the phone...
...find magic in the Kathputli slum, if you know where to look. In one of the unlit concrete huts lining this cramped and chaotic warren of alleys, open sewage and dazed beggars, a boy swallows a sword. In another, a string puppeteer makes his wooden princess do pirouettes that send her dress - hand-stitched by his wife - sailing through the air. In a third home, a ten-year-old girl waves her hands over three flowers and - poof! - a bouquet...