1.   Wallace said the rumors had been started by someone who bore a grudge against him.

2.   And they wonder how rumors get started?

3.   But a few months ago a rumor got started and spread like a ditch fire.

4.   But real-estate agents, whom the locals suspect of starting the rumors, deny it.

5.   Friends started rumors of a possible run for higher office.

6.   He and Jackson responded by starting a rumor that the Congress of Industrial Organizations, under John L. Lewis, planned to unionize the White House.

7.   He has suggested that the boys started false rumors about Stein that got out of hand after school administrators found out about them.

8.   Highlighting the precarious situation, an explosion in a Bethlehem Palestinian police compound killed two and started rumors of an imminent Israeli helicopter attack.

9.   How did the Gretzky-to-San Jose rumors get started?

10.   It would be losses to those three, plus an inevitable slip-up, that could start the rumors flying again about Robinson.