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Word: lifers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope, Kathryn Grant (Mrs. Bing Crosby) and Jill St. John in a slice-of-lifer about a middle-class couple who buy a house next to a notorious gangster. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...West German political prisoner who claimed to have been "unfairly and wrongly" convicted by her countrymen in a 1951 war crimes trial, members of the European Commission on Human Rights not only rejected the plea but also damned it as a "manifest abuse" of their time. The appel lant: Lifer Use Koch, 54, better known during World War II as the "Bitch of Buchenwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the classes have achieved considerable success in their attempts to "challenge the prisoner's mind," as the following selections from short essay written by a "lifer" in Concord reformatory would indicate...

Author: By Frederic L. Bullard jr., | Title: PBH Prison Instruction Program: Education As Attempt To Curtail Further Crimes By Convicted Men | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Birds. But Texas is where, ornithologically, East meets West, and North America meets near-tropical Mexico. The conscientious Texas birder needed both Peterson books -or all three volumes of Richard H. Pough's Audubon Bird Guides-and by the time he had riffled all the pages, the exciting "lifer'' (i.e., a new bird) had probably flown away still unidentified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Rarae Aves | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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