Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick results: the "hawks" talk of sharp escalation by more bombing, and the "doves" seek an "imaginative" peace offensive. This inclination for bold moves reflects a misunderstanding of good diplomacy and raises unrealistic expectations. Especially in the light of past confusion, even a significant U.S. peace move might not elicit an immediate response from North Vietnam. The United States must be patient, and the President must be ready to wait -- and convince others to wait -- for a response...
...dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...
...poll will also elicit student views on the equity of student deferments in general, the possibility of the substitution of a lottery for the present draft system, and the use of the Selective Service Qualification Test as a partial factor in granting student deferments...
...hall whence they came. Sir Andrew's lines project well from James Valentine's slim physique; and there is a good deal of Stan Laurel in this droll performance. But how could a director be so derelict as to let Toby's suggestion, "Now let's have a catch," elicit at once Andrew's comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," with nary so much as one phrase of a catch sung between...
Three in a Bed. Surgeon Sulfridge, who often has to make do without electric power or running water, has three Vietnamese nurses (two women, one man) to assist him. He makes rounds with an interpreter and is lucky to have one-many project doctors have to elicit symptoms and give instructions by sign language. Like all newly arrived Americans, he was appalled at first by the filth and overcrowding in the wards, with two or three patients in a single dirty bed. Within 48 hours he was performing as many as seven major operations a day, was so immersed...