11.   That meeting, a regular House gathering, was unusually crowded after word spread he would make an announcement about the fine.

12.   The idea caught on in nearby church communities, and then, as word spread, groups around the country.

13.   The pictures these costume sessions produced became popular Christmas cards among friends and, as word spread, even strangers.

14.   They have been searching for answers since word first spread in northeast Milwaukee that Commey had been arrested and charged with attempted air piracy.

15.   At the Reyhan girls high school in western Tehran students started cheering and clapping as word spread before the final results that Khatami was the apparent victor.

16.   At the Reyhan girls high school in western Tehran, students started cheering and clapping as word spread before the final results that Khatami was the apparent victor.

17.   But the crush of Palestinians seeking to enter only grew worse as word spread that some people would be allowed to cross.

18.   Greek embassies throughout Europe were stormed by Kurdish protesters after the word spread that Ocalan left the Greek embassy in Kenya for an unknown destination.

19.   Ordinary Jordanians flooded news agencies with calls as word spread.

20.   The Richmond area was reported calm but tense Saturday as word spread of the murders of National Consultative Forum youth leader Thembinkosi Msouthern Xondi and his girlfriend.