Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucson is adding 1,000 to its population each month, Phoenix even more. Las Vegas' Clark County claims 80,000 permanent newcomers since 1940; Yuma, Ariz, more than 20,000. On California's Mojave Desert, population has soared 360% (from 32,000 to 147,000); one of its new cities, Ridgecrest, not even an entity in 1940, already counts 6,700 residents and is steadily climbing. The fertile Coachella Valley, north of California's Salton Sea, has doubled in population (from 16,000 to 32,000) since 1950, and Henderson, incorporated in 1953 twelve miles...
Thousands claim to have been cured through Roberts of everything from tuberculosis to menopause troubles, but most return home with the same ailments with which they came. Roberts' critics have accused him of shrewdly selecting hysterics and effecting only temporary relief. Earlier this year in Phoenix, Ariz., a group of ministers offered, while Roberts was in town, to pay $1,000 for any proof of divine healing, got no comers. Of such doubters, Roberts says: "I'll leave them to their theology. I'm out to save souls. I have more friends among doctors than among ministers...
...Tucson, Ariz...
...that point, the rules of the game changed: a contestant had to spell not only the word her opponent missed, but another one as well. Sandra's opponent, Jean Copeland of the Prescott (Ariz.) Junior High School, knocked off solecism and encomium, while Sandra got mnemonic. Then Sandra spelled cedilla with an "s," and it was only because Jean flubbed papyraceous that Sandra was saved. By word No. 534, Spelling-Bee Director Charles Schneider was wondering whether he would have to declare a draw...
...Yuma, Ariz., discovering that he would have to shut down radio station KOLD for an hour to install new equipment, enterprising Station Owner Jim Hawthorne promptly sold the hour to a sponsor for $365 (plus a five-second mention at noon every day for a year), plugged it as "an innovation in broadcasting-one hour of absolute silence brought to this audience by Smith Mattress & Upholstery...