1.   A rumor spread that whites were going to burn and attack the black quarter, so the blacks prepared for an invasion.

2.   And because the band went into a rehab center to iron out its differences, rumors spread about drug use.

3.   Argerich kept her silence even as rumors spread that she was fatally ill.

4.   As rumors spread in recent weeks that Hanover was facing financial problems, traders hoping to profit from them seem to have stepped up shorting of those stocks.

5.   As the rumors spread that there were offers for the company, other shareholders also wanted Gehl to consider selling out.

6.   At Harvard Sunday, a rumor was spreading that Salinas would arrive sometime this week to begin working in csome capacity at the Harvard Business School.

7.   A few weak rumors spread about a romance between Elly May and Elvis, says one biographer.

8.   A rumor spread that the cost of bottled drinking water would soar by morning.

9.   After that, rumors spread that Misha had pipe bomb recipes from the Internet and had talked of bringing a gun to school.

10.   But by Tuesday afternoon, rumors had spread that Dvoriantchikov had been executed in classic Russian mob fashion.