Word: elicit
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...generously sprinkling his speech with obscenities, demanded a public apology. Fitzwater refused. And after Wallace finally left, Fitzwater left too, saying he was too flustered to go on with the show. "I was dumbfounded," says Fitzwater. "I didn't think there was anything in the book that could elicit that response." Oh? How about: "Mike Wallace has been destroying people on television for years" (page 223)? Back at the taping, desperate executive producer Scott Carter got Wallace to send a replacement guest: Morley Safer. He was fine, but as guest Jackie Collins, who arrived late, said, "I wanted...
...members failed to reach a clear consensus on either proposal, despite an effort to elicit advice from the departments last year...
...central question in determining whether an art form is in danger is whether it continues to elicit emotion from its audience. The dwindling of that audience's size usually serves as a warning that the art form no longer fans emotional embers...
...separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, researchers concluded that the most commonly used genetic treatments for cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy had run into a dead end. In both cases, scientists inserting normal genes into patients with defective ones were not able to elicit corrective changes in their patients' bodies...
...suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were charged in the U.S. and Scotland in 1991 with planting a suitcase bomb that killed all 270 people aboard 103. The FBI, which believes they've been hiding in Libya, says it will employ "innovative methods . . . to elicit the cooperation of the people of Libya and North Africa," including Internet queries and printing Arabic solicitations on matchbook covers in the region...