Word: skittering
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Trouble also came from white planters of the region, who watched their cheap help skitter off the fields to get better jobs at the Army post. The planters referred contemptuously to "that nigger airport." A white planter telephoned that he would kill the first Negro soldier who ever again waved greetings to his womenfolk...
...half-ton command car and the motor tricycle, is as ugly as a bull pup. It has a wheelbase of only 80 in. (Ford V8: 114 in.) and a fourwheel drive that provides enormous traction for its 42-h.p. engine. It has no trouble pulling light field pieces, can skitter along a road at 60 m.p.h. Designed to replace motorcycles and sidecars for reconnaissance work, it can go anywhere a cycle can, and a lot of places a cycle can't. It can be used as a troop carrier (three men easily, six with crowding), weapon carrier (machine guns...
...most provocative patriotism in the world wear your stars and stripes "undercover"! Let a star-struck slip skitter out from under your navy blue suit. Wear a boldly striped petticoat with a witty bombardment of stars on its bodice. The whole idea's as fresh and vivid as the red carnation in your best bean's buttonhole. It's as deliciously daring as the gusty winds of March will let you be. Macy...
Every morning last week a knot of sturdy Britons, surrounded by gawping Hindu hillmen, watched a snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
...only peer into shadows for herbs, roots and grains on which to feed. When the dazzling sun disappears for the night, the gnomes chirk up. Pouty lips mumble rusticities into lumpish ears. The males creep forth to forage. The older females brew the night's potage. And gnats skitter across the moonbeams...