Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student opinion may influence the final report of the recently-formed CEP Subcommittee on Admissions Policy, Chairman Franklin L. Ford stated yesterday. After making provisional policy decisions, the Subcommittee will then consult representatives of undergraduate and graduate student groups and elicit opinions on its proposed revisions...
...ball around the court, making the put-away shots which are so necessary in regulation courts almost impossible. Another reason for Hamm's easy win is probably that he is definitely the wrong man on whom to try the usual Navy rough-'em-up style, as such tactics often elicit a response in kind from...
...course a great writer in good form can make much meaning of scanty material. But O'Casey rather plainly hasn't, in this particular instance, and the Charles Playhouse fights a vain battle in trying to elicit dramatic tension from a turgid situation that O'Casey has told in a talky...
...Greeks have never quite understood why their case did not elicit more sympathy in the United States. The principles for which they fight, self-determination and freedom from colonial rule, have in the past been pre-eminently associated with the U.S., they argue. They are fond of drawing parallels between the eighteenth-century struggle of Americans to throw off British rule and their own efforts today. They strongly resent American use of the word "terrorists" to refer to EOKA, declaring that this group is the Cypriot equivalent of our own "Minute...
Mlle. Boulanger's technique as a conductor is not to lead, so much as to elicit the music from the players and singers, participating with them in chamber music fashion. She conducted standing at the piano, occasionally supplying her own version of a continuo part. This resulted frequently in uncertainty, and some awkward moments. But for the most part, she had the complete sympathy of the musicians, whose grasp of her rhythms and nuances amounted almost to mystical communion...