Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dumping the original idea was a blessing in disguise," said Lithgow. "Now it has become much wider and has even spread to the houses...
...chapel crackled as flames consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from the messiah's rock-'n'-roll band and the wooden pew-like bleachers for his audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned fast because it was built on the cheap, a tar-paper, yellow-pine and plasterboard crematorium...
Indeed, the desire to spread the message was so strong that it helped persuade agents that Koresh did not mean to end his life. Reno had to balance conflicting reports about whether the Davidians were prepared for a mass suicide, the one finale she hoped to avoid at all costs. Four times negotiators asked if Koresh planned to kill himself, and four times he denied them. "If I wanted to commit suicide," he told them, "I would have done that a long time ago." Agents pointed out that Koresh had backed away from the brink before. On March 2, when...
...outside rooms fled them for interior areas, but within minutes these were ablaze too. David Thibodeau, one of the Mighty Men, told his mother that he tried to run upstairs to get to the children, but the way was blocked. "People had no time to get out. The fire spread very fast," says Avraam, who escaped by diving out a window...
They have also been featured in People Magazine and the cover of Parade magazine. They said their goal is to spread AIDS awareness among American youth...