Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy?the first serious revolution since 1917 in terms of world impact." Said Schlesinger: "It is plain that respect for the U.S. would be higher if we didn't just fumble around continuously and weren't half-apologetic about whatever we do. An image of weakness is going to elicit this kind of behavior. Wild as the Ayatullah seems to be, he would not dare to touch the Soviet embassy. The point is that the Soviets are in a position, and of a disposition, not to take such events lying down. The fact of the matter is, as Mr. Nixon...
...show is astutely structured to elicit some sympathy for Eva (Patti LuPone) and to present her as something of a scrappy feminist. It begins with her funeral and ends with her death. In flashback, she flees from her barren pampas birthplace to glamorous Buenos Aires, arriving as the amorous baggage of a cornball bari tone guitarist (Mark Syers). She soon acquires a sardonic shadow, a one-man Greek chorus in the anomalous figure of Che Guevara (Mandy Patinkin). Che dogs every step of Eva's checkered ascent through calculated boudoir encounters and forays into stage, films and radio...
...Vienna, where Carter will confront Brezhnev face to face for the first time. Schmidt has met the Soviet leader twice, most recently in May 1978. Carter wants to elicit every tip he can: how to judge Brezhnev's moods, how to broach touchy subjects, and most of all, how to deal with his shaky, if not sinking, health...
...strike of '69 provided impetus to student concern over the department's problems. Representatives from the Black Student Association (BSA), the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and several other student groups formed a committee in support of the Afro-American Studies Department in early April. The committee first tried to elicit student support for the department by distributing petitions to the Houses, focusing on two of the department's perennial problems: tenured faculty and funding...
...storm may be brewing. Reflected a presidential aide: "Forbearance doesn't elicit a more cooperative Congress." Still smarting from the House vote on gas rationing, Carter dashed off sharp notes to Congressmen. To New York Democrat James Hanley, who had explained his vote in a letter described by a White House official as "snotty and insulting," the President answered, "What should I do, put my head in the sand, ignore the problems, or look for a scapegoat...