scramble
verb (used without object)
to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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By the end of December, 40-odd projected productions, many of them by practised hands, will have scrambled for berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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