Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

But others say music like Lead Belly's would never have become widely known if it wasn't for the work of John Lomax.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Whatever touched it would often become trapped forever.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29