Maricopa County Sheriff's Office controversies. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County, Arizona that has been involved in many controversies since 1995.
It was then used to mean 'a sudden state of activity (or inactivity) or state of mind', as in this early example, taken from William Warner's Albion's England, 1586: His seruants fear his solemn fittes.. The phrase 'fits and starts' is somewhat tautological, as both allude to sporadic activity.
Origin. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the interrogative word âwhatâ stems from the Old English âHwaetâ, hwÃ¦t an exclamation that roughly translates âto.â So the term is also used in the opening line Of Old english epic Poem : Beowolf! Hwaet HwÃ¦t  || âwe gardena-in.â (âGear! dagum so