81.   Eventually, word spread of the watery paradise.

82.   First, word spread around the Amherst College campus that Salman Rushdie, the British author living under a death sentence, was scheduled to speak here.

83.   From there the word spread -- quickly.

84.   He was hired by phone, and word spread around City Hall of the new Irish chief.

85.   He won the favor of reporters earlier this year once word spread that he serves eight flavors of Blue Bell ice cream by the scoop.

86.   His visit was unannounced, but he was spotted and word spread.

87.   His word spread, not least because he wrote thousands of letters, his prose a mix of flamboyant grandiosity and street bluntness.

88.   Hundreds converged on a church when word spread that food was available there.

89.   Hours before his speech, word spread through the convention center that a new grand jury would investigate whether Clinton should be prosecuted for alleged lies.

90.   Hundreds of people gathered outside his rundown apartment house when word spread he had been killed.