scrambles

What is it about nostalgia that so effectively scrambles our evaluative faculties?

This is pretty close to a circular firing squad as Boehner scrambles to find 218 votes to avert fiscal Armaggeddon.

In London the drama is already smothered in scenery; the interpretation scrambles off as it can.

I had lively scrambles and saw much petrified wood in the rough mountainous country at the northwest corner of the Park.

The policeman never leaves me, and scrambles up and down the stones after me with an extremely amused smile.

The bus-mate scrambles up and we charge once more into the strong light to seaward.

And he had gone up in life much the way a monkey climbs, by shifts and scrambles and prehensile hoists with frequent falls.