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Word: scampering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton's loss moved them back into a third place tie with Yale in the Ivy standings. The Eli defense and specialty units propelled the Bulldogs to a narrow 20-14 win over Cornell. Yale QB Stone Phillips' 32-yard scamper for six in the last period snapped...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Crusaders Nip Brown, 21-20; Penn Tops Tigers; Yale Wins | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...visitors grabbed an early 7-0 lead in the first quarter with a 60-yard drive. But after Perry Carter's eight yard scamper for paydirt, Harvard's defensive crew shut the door for the remainder of the half...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: B.C. Tops Freshmen, 16-7 | 10/18/1975 | See Source »

...soft fade: the camera moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down a staircase in a sepia print, and a minute later the scene repeats but the girls disappear before they reach the bottom...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Short and Sweet | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

...Gesicki's three-yard scamper and a 24-yard field goal by Randy Carter provided the necessary insurance for the unbeatens. Yale travels to Brown next Saturday in what should be the first "humdinger" of the Ivy campaign...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Brown, Dartmouth Win | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...visual jokes are imaginative and successful. A "bullet" sequence parodies some of the cliches of silent film comedy; a threatening group sneaks up behind someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

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