Sentence:  At this point , unfortunately , romance <WSD>becomes</WSD> a regrettably small part of the picture ; but consider , if you can bear it , what might have happened if MacArthur , for some perverse , undaunted reason , had made the same remark to an Eskimo girl in Eskimo . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  enter or assume a certain state or condition