When caught up in the enthusiasm of the Reformation that was rapidly spreading in central Europe, Bucer became a Protestant Reformer.
The European debt crisis dominated sentiment again, after a poor result in the latest German bond auction raised fears the contagion was rapidly spreading to the core members of the eurozone.
But the suspicion was rapidly spreading in the capital that the ultimate decisions would be made not by judges but by politicians, first in Tallahassee and ultimately on Capitol Hill.
Later that morning, we presented a summary of our findings to the director general of the W.H.O., Gro Harlem Brundtland: An apparently new and untreatable respiratory disease was rapidly spreading around the globe.
To the east, a massive fire was rapidly spreading, producing a thick brown smoke cloud that reached all the way north, to Santa Barbara County.
Not long after it was posted it had already accumulated 7,000 Likes and was rapidly spreading through messageboards and newsfeeds – just like wildfire, if wildfire was humiliating and made you want to shut your face in a door until no one could recognise you.
