21. These countries will scrape into the fold of Europe, Judt said; the others will not. 22. It sounds as if the wheels or casters were not turning and were scraping into the wood. 23. Now he can only watch as the Azzurri try to scrape into next summer's tourney. 24. That's how Italy felt after its beloved soccer team scraped into the World Cup finals. 25. The club scraped into playoff contention by just one goal on the last day of the season. 26. It scraped into the top 40 in the US, something The Jam never managed to achieve. 27. It is also unusual as Whitlam only scraped into office with a thin majority of 9 seats. 28. The Mystics finished the round-robin season in fourth place, scraping into the finals series. 29. Nine months later, after the resulting furor had subsided, it was scraped into oblivion _ almost. 30. The fact that Italy scraped into the finals _ winning a playoff against Russia _ is nothing new.