Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although I had hoped for an explanatory statement from the College concerning the demise of the Geography Department, I now write not only in contention with the move but also to elicit some comment from those who made...
...crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...
Lady on a Train (Universal) sets out to elicit chills and chuckles, but never quite reaches its modest destination...
...presence of these theatrical new-comers in the audience, although welcomed by actors, sometimes produces a feeling of uncertainty among them since they cannot be sure of the reactions which particular lines will elicit from spectators whose ears are more a tuned to the traditional cliches of the movies," she added...
...Long Haul. The price was not exorbitant: without bearings, the mechanized German war machine eventually would be helpless. But the cost was high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy...