1.   In late July word reached Joe that Stanley prisoners were to be exchanged.

2.   He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him.

3.   But apparently word never reached the racers.

4.   By the time he was a junior at Shadow Mountain High School, he had become so good that word even reached Henry that his son was a player.

5.   By the time I got to Waco, word had reached us that Edward Wesley already had made his appearance.

6.   DeLay was delighted when word of the arm-twisting reached the press.

7.   Even before the book was published, the word had reached Hollywood that something unusual was in the offing.

8.   He seems to move too much, sometimes bobbing forward like an actor uncertain his words will reach the listener four feet away.

9.   Six years ago, word reached this medieval town in eastern Germany that its fabled stolen treasures, lost since World War II, had been found in Texas.

10.   Slowly, though, the words are reaching Main Street.