Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...techniques, so many people are hurling themselves out of airplanes for the fun of it that Geronimo has gone back to the Indians, and the birds are taking collision insurance. Last week at Leutkirch, West Germany, 175 of the best jumpers from 31 countries turned up for the seventh biennial world parachuting champion ships. When they had finished leaping into the wild blue 2,104 times, the U.S. team wound up with three of the four titles, exactly duplicating their 1962 victory...
...starting line, at the windward mark, and again at the leeward mark. Then, perhaps, the fledgling sailor may be considered qualified to crew for the likes of Corny Shields, in International One-Designs, or America's Cup 12-meters, or in ocean-going yachts in the biennial Bermuda races...
...issue facing the 670 delegates to the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America (3,227,000 members) was a proposed new, uniform order of worship drawn up by eight of the nation's top Lutheran liturgists. They favored Holy Communion services at least every Sunday and the use of the chalice rather than prefilled individual Communion glasses. They also recommended that every church should have facilities for private confessions, and that Lutherans should be "increasingly urged to avail themselves of this spiritual habit...
Guerrilla Warfare. Those lawyers who condone civil disobedience do so on very narrow grounds. Civil disobedience is "just" only when all legal redress has been closed-a position taken last week by the Lutheran Church in America at its biennial convention in Pittsburgh. "If and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or have been demonstrably inadequate," resolved the church, "Christians may then choose to serve the cause of racial justice by disobeying a law that clearly involves the violation of their obligations as Christians...
They stored diamonds in milk cans in South Africa during the Depression -who could afford them? But now more than 40 million American women wear diamonds, and last year Americans bought about $400 million worth of the precious stones. Last week, at their biennial convention in Manhattan, members of the World Federation of Diamond Exchanges predicted that U.S. diamond sales would rise at least another 10% this year, and they looked forward to continued scarcity. Says Amsterdam's Louis Asscher, former chairman of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association: "There won't be any queuing up at Tiffany...