That left the transit agency scrambling to write a new contract with Sprague so that it would not run out of bus fuel.
One way or another, by the time either of those things happened, another man, a minister from Boston, was dead, and Johnson had set his staff scrambling to write a draft of a speech, and to assemble a voting-rights bill that he'd send to Congress sooner than he had planned.
Reporters scrambled to write paeans to the company's nimbleness and ability to see over the hill.
They also showed the reluctance within the administration about saying anything definitively as officials scrambled to write talking points for lawmakers and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who discussed the attack on Sunday television talk shows.
After the shooting and the screaming and the smoke faded away, the guardians of state security scrambled to write the story of how 68 people were killed inside the prison walls here on April 5.
It was Cameron saying that Turkey will join the bloc "in about the year 3000" that really stung – pro-government journalists scrambled to write things along the lines of "see, told you, everyone hates us".
He scrambled to write grants, publish papers, and handle his teaching and administrative responsibilities while also squeezing in the many rewrites his editor requested to make him sound more like a storyteller than a scientist.
Be it liveblogging some Apple event or just scrambling to write up a story that broke while I was out to lunch, it's a regular thing – and I've always hated it.
Mel, the book's narrator, is lying in a local hospital that lacks a psychiatric staff, scrambling to write notes on a legal pad that will make sense of his situation and the trajectory of his life, grasping for words because words are all he has left and because the act of writing helps him avoid the shame of his inactivity.
That's not the case with the proudly scrappy "24 Is 10: The Best of the 24-Hour Plays," a greatest-hits collection of the popular showcase that features some of the biggest names in the theater scrambling to write, cast and perform one-acts in a single day.
