21.   The town becomes a colony.

22.   The town has become a flashpoint for clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces.

23.   The town became a magnet for the Hazaras, resilient refugees from central and western Afghanistan.

24.   The town is becoming downright licentious.

25.   The town became a primary supply port during the Revoluntionary War after other ports were barricaded.

26.   There are too many of those in these times when small towns are becoming extinct and everyone moves from their urban places every seven years.

27.   Arafat sketched out a glorious vision of what the poor, mostly Palestinian, town might become.

28.   As the towns became more desperate, the electricity supply died because the scavengers stole the power lines.

29.   Before this one-stoplight town became home to the Western White House, municipal elections were no big deal.

30.   The towns will become testing grounds for party policies, they say.