Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
...United Committee of Third World Organizations' petition drive in support of its 12-point plan for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute continued this week to elicit what one leader of the committee called "substantial support from students and Faculty...
Stephen H. Dart'75, chairman of the Kirkland House Committee, said yesterday that Vogt attempted to elicit suggestions for the new senior tutor from students...
...team bases its report on a study of 51 young men and women who used marijuana regularly. Taking T-lymphocytes, or immunologically active white blood cells, from the pot smokers and from 81 healthy, nonsmoking volunteers, the doctors mixed the cells in test tubes with substances known to elicit immune responses. Cells from both groups responded to the foreign substances by multiplying, but those taken from the marijuana users reproduced 40% less than those from controls, a result suggesting that regular marijuana users may be more susceptible to disease...
...interview under less pressure, that kind of evasion would normally elicit a prompt follow-up question. In large press conferences, however, immediate follow-up is the exception rather than the rule. When Nixon was unresponsive to a question about the Agnew case, the next reporter changed the subject to oil and the Middle East. A second Agnew question doubtless would have brought out another version of a "No comment...