1.   After she died at a San Jose hospital, word spread fast.

2.   And you want word to spread about your success-not your anxiety.

3.   As word spread about the newfangled invention and more people saw it in action, the guillotine became a public craze.

4.   Gradually, word spread, and we built up a very successful business indeed.

5.   When the word spread of another crime against white womanhood, a white mob gathered outside the jail.

6.   The injunctions have been handed round and we hope the word will spread round the country.

7.   Although word spread quickly among local residents, Cruz said that neither he nor the federal police in the state received news of the incident until two days later.

8.   And oil prices jumped Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange even as word spread that Iraq was coming back into the market.

9.   And word spread fast.