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...real pillars on the side comes crashing down across the front of the stage. It's made of solid wood, and it's about 30 or 40 feet high, so it's a real thousand pound pillar, and they let it freely drop. The ballet people have to scamper out of the way. That's really a fear moment...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

...Sindona scamper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Already, from the Carolinas to New York, little holes are appearing in lawns and backyards, hillsides and woodlands. Any evening now, out will pop millions of dark little bugs. They will scamper up almost any upright object-trees, poles, buildings-and soon strike up a joyous racket, marking nuptial rites after being buried alive for 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wedding Whirs | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Kirkland scored in the first quarter when fullback Brad Lown took in a 5-yd. scamper to cap a 65-yd. drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland and Leverett Advance To Intramural Football Finals | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...that the words In God We Trust on U.S. currency are blasphemous. Last week he tried to take his case right to the top: the White House. Wearing a white karate suit and carrying his well-thumbed Bible, he scrambled over the fence from Pennsylvania Avenue and managed to scamper 15 yards onto the White House lawn before being met by at least eight Secret Service agents and uniformed guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible and slashed one officer's face and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Secret Service We Trust | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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