Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adult life of our society while at the same time the complexities of that society steadily and inexorably multiply. In particular the call for individuals of increased insight, wider knowledge, firmer direction, and all the other qualities of mind and will which it is the colleges' chief purpose to elicit becomes ever more insistent. In the face of this already vast and enlarging obligation an educational institution needs constantly to be asking itself whether its practices are good enough to ensure that it is doing and is equipped to do what is expected...
Joyce White's Svanhild was too reginal and cold to elicit sufficiently ardent passion to make her choose between a temporary lover and a permanent husband; but she has a pleasing voice. She should learn to control her unconscious mannerism of underlining important words with little negative twitches of the head. As her sister, Anna Hunt was colorless; her voice, though musical, lacked conviction. Their mother, as played by Jen Karabel, needed force; her mezzo-piano voice was not up to the two fortissimo outbursts demanded...
Concerts of old music tend to elicit in the performers a misplaced picty that results in a persistently dragging tempo. With the sole exception of a 12th-century hymn to St. Magnus, no piece on the program suffered in this respect...
Postponing this painful judgment, the Senators have decided to hold hearings to elicit the facts. The trial ritual will be mocked again-as it was in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Witnesses will be heard, and, the committee decided last week, Joe will have the right to cross-examine them. This week Joe demanded that one of his accusers, Senator Ralph Flanders, return from a vacation in Europe and be put under oath as a "complaining witness." Actually, Flanders is no more a "witness" than any other American who can read or look at television. Flanders is a man who says...
...idea that a priest will elicit from workers a true opinion of their company and union is fatuous and naive in the extreme