Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose reviews should run upside down. They are the volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity...
...figure on campus, attired in a black leather flying jacket and white parachute-silk scarf. Come January, Embry-Riddle is in for more surprises. Bach, whose most recent book is A Gift of Wings, will teach a 15-week two-credit seminar on "philosophy of flight." The curriculum should elicit gasps from commercial pilots and shudders from airline passengers. The students "will have to spend an evening some time between midnight and dawn alone with an airplane and see what happens." And if a cybernetic relationship is successfully established, "they're going to have to do nothing...
Safire dazzlingly demonstrated a technique that might be called innuendo by question mark. He asked rhetorically: "What deals were made in secrecy to buy testimony? What bribes of freedom were offered, what coercion used to elicit accusations that might be perjurious? What officials were harassed for daring to criticize? What collusion was there to time indictments to the impeachment process, as in Mr. Connally's indictment on the day the 'abuse of power' article of impeachment was voted upon...
...objected to the line of testimony I was pursuing at which time I was obligated to make an offer of proof. I had no intention to characterize where I was going at that point. My intention at that point was simply to ask the questions and to try to elicit information, and then if the information bore it out make a reference in my written brief to what we had alleged in our earlier presentation...
...close-up of a brutal beating by vicious grunting thugs wielding chains and pipes. The violence, excerpted from a later sequence in the movie, immediately propels us into the career of Roberto Barrera, a national union leader who makes himself the subject of a mock kidnapping so as to elicit worker sympathy for himself at the upcoming union elections. Through a series of flashbacks, that film shows Barrera's rise from bomb-throwing revolutionary to corrupt union boss, from a principled, uncompromising factory worker to a power broker whose only interest is to fill his own pockets by playing...