But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

They had minutes to scramble up the mountain. Vivi,his brother and cousin carried their elderly father on a section of metal fencing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07