Word: scatteringly
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...knocked down half a dozen attackers before he was laid low by a flying tackle. His assailants jumped on him, pounded his head with a stone. By the time the police arrived, 20 minutes after the melee began, the heavily outnumbered dissidents & friends had dealt enough telling blows to scatter most of their Communist adversaries...
...neckers, the rolling, spacious (1,900-acre) campus of the University of Wisconsin has always offered a goodly choice for a few hours on the Old Ox Road. Some couples, as the old song records, go up to Observatory Hill,* some to the shore of Lake Mendota; others just scatter. Last week Professor Howard Gill of the sociology department suggested that this phase of campus mores could stand a bit of organizing...
...These Simple Things." Last week Professor Arberry finished a new translation, this time putting the quatrains into verse. When the Arberry Rubdiydt finally appears, connoisseurs will find the old Omar quite changed. For Quatrain No. 1 ("Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night. . ."), readers will find...
...photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand', to scatter the rascals for good...
...Roses. Some resistance to the practice comes from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...