Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...souls of those who in the hour of peril venture forth. O, to be depourvu, bereft, and rid of that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
Specifically, the transforming of America's early warning system into a bidirectional unit and insistence on UN supervision of Israeli and Egyptian atomic reactors were suggested as steps which might elicit peaceable responses from the Soviet Union...
...bridge, handle a bow and arrow, sweet-talk some bread out of a native in his own language, fashion explosives out of chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means. The Fort Bragg school is broadening its training in counterguerrilla warfare, numbers among its students officers from Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. "Once a guerrilla force knows that it is being stalked by hostile guerrillas, its full...
...wondered precisely what he had in mind. Last week the government introduced a "disclosure of information" bill that, as a first step in the program, proved unexpectedly easy to live with. For all the rambunctious tone of recent expressions of Canadian nationalist sentiment, the bill is sensibly designed to elicit the facts on the operations of U.S. business concerns and labor unions in Canada before the Tories consider further legislation...
...President make up his mind by picturing the consequences of either limited retaliation or all all-out strike. The first, according to the Soviet note, would bring devastation to each country where it was applied, and hence would likely be rejected by the countries themselves; the second would elicit all-out retailiation by Russia's ICBM and "SAC" forces against vulnerable U. S. bases and cities. Really, the Soviet note concludes, the only sensible course for the President would be acquiescence...