Word: triennial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the Nieman Foundation did not "honor" or "pay tribute" to Kissinger by making him one of the 43 speakers at our triennial Convocation (alumni reunion). In fact, we had him solo at the Saturday dinner precisely because he was probably the most controversial of our speakers, and it seemed that the ratio of one Kissinger to 200-plus press people might give the press a fighting chance in combat with one of their long-time adversaries. Actually, we "honor" nobody by asking them to talk to Niemans; we merely bet that they may have interesting things...
With commencement season having run its course, with The Graduate celebrating the 30th anniversary of its 1967 release, with seemingly the entire plastics industry having convened in Chicago last month for the triennial national plastics exposition--talking point: graffiti-resistant stop signs incorporating innovative plastics technology were only one of more than a thousand new products on display at the exposition--it seems like the perfect time to revisit what is arguably the most famous single-word line of dialogue in movie history, "Rosebud" excepted...
...entire island was wired for some serious live action; it was the latest in a triennial global spectacle. It was even more thrilling than ESPN, with an audience a thousand times as large...
...women's Harvard-Yale-Princeton cross-country meet made its triennial appearance at Franklin Park this past Friday, and the teams from Princeton quickly made themselves at home on Harvard's turf...