Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arizona 20, New Jersey...
...with an 83-year-old woman's wish to be disconnected from the respirator that was keeping her alive and in pain. Nearly three years earlier, the woman had drawn up a "living will," a document that requested hospitals not to prolong her life by extraordinary measures. Because Arizona does not recognize such a will (15 states and the District of Columbia do), doctors did not want to take legal responsibility for her death...
...phrase "between a rock and a hard place" is, to my knowledge, a ruralism. I first heard it in Arizona about 1940 and had the impression it had been in use long before that. Country sayings almost invariably have a much higher poetic component than their big-city equivalents. Some of these observations have become classics, like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockin' chairs." One of my particular favorites is "as lonesome as a peanut in a boxcar...
...bought a B.A. in law enforcement from Southwestern University in Tucson for $500 in 1982 because he "wanted something to hang on my wall and feel proud about." Ultimately, he became suspicious about his purchase: the transcript showed good grades for unrelated "courses," including an A in trigonometry. The Arizona house of representatives has passed legislation (awaiting state-senate passage this spring) that will outlaw the obvious diploma mills...
...talked to National Institutes of Health researchers about the amazing Pima Indians, who have very low heart-attack rates. Since last year, when she covered the progress of Artificial Heart Recipient Barney Clark for TIME, Crooks has become something of an expert on medical subjects, although her degree from Arizona State in 1977 is in music history. "Medical reporting is exciting," she says. "There are still so many questions about cholesterol requiring proven answers. But things change so fast. When I go to the medical dictionary to check a word's spelling, it often isn't even...