Word: elicited
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Seeking a major project that would involve manned flight and thus more easily elicit the support of Congress ("No bucks without Buck Rogers," quip congressional aides), the agency opted for the Space Transportation System, the shuttle program. Lobbying the White House, the Defense Department and Congress intensively, NASA portrayed the shuttle as all things to all people. The winged craft would be reusable and thus economical, a safe, reliable space truck with many different roles. In as many as 60 flights a year, it would loft or capture satellites and patrol the skies for the military. Furthermore, NASA assured...
After protesting in front of Mackler's Waylandresidence for almost two hours, waving placardsand chanting anti-Gillette slogans, thedemonstrators moved to the nearby Wayland ShoppingCenter to elicit public support. They carriedsigns that read "The Hidden Ingredient in GilletteProducts is Suffering," and "Colman Mockler:Wayland Resident Stop Burning and Blinding andPoisoning Rabbits...
There is a story for every stop: the statue of three lies, the stipulations on Widener library, the butter pads on the ceiling of the Harvard Union. Most of tales elicit "oohs" and "ahs"--and occasional chuckles--from the people on the tour...
...Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon: "If we were in Japan, Pete would be designated a Living National Treasure." Instead, Carril may have to settle for merely being the best college basketball coach in America. Year after year, he molds a succession of students whose collective athletic skills would not elicit a raised eyebrow from pro scouts into cohesive units that play a disciplined, cerebral game and regularly confound Top 20 opponents. Yet, until one evening last March when his team nervelessly took top-seeded Georgetown to the limit, losing 50-49, Carril was a household name only...
Food privileges elicit the deepest anger. Although there are plenty of potatoes and kasha, a kind of porridge, ordinary Soviets must wait in long lines, sometimes for hours, to purchase such "luxuries" as soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies...