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Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear.

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When he noted that CPB’s federal funding had been shut down by Congress and that CPB would shut its doors, the comment elicited a loud “boo” from the audience.

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Protests in Indonesia sparked by economic hardship have elicited a heavy-handed response from police, triggering concerns that the Southeast Asian nation could be returning to its authoritarian past.

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The notion that veteran homelessness is only half what it was thought to be elicited scoffs from Bass, Murray and those close to the ground like advocate Reynolds.

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Not surprisingly, the partisan fight over election maps elicited deeply partisan results in the poll.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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