Word: elicit
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Whether croaking out a few bars of a Polish ditty on Dyngus Day* in South Bend, Ind., or japing down hecklers in Coos Bay, Ore., Robert Kennedy continued to elicit the extremes of ardor and rancor...
...shrewd and subtle propaganda, for he does not club the audience over the head with 85 minutes of American "war crimes against the heroic struggling Vietnamese people." Though there are the inevitable bedside clips of women and children maimed by the bombing, the film is not calculated to elicit the audience's sympathy for the North Vietnamese under siege and attack so much as it means to show that American efforts to subdue this nation are futile...
...with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character to elicit either admiration or scorn...
...September 1, the UFWOC had placed organizers in 20 strategic cities. Their job was to establish a thorough boycott; trying to elicit cooperation from wholesalers and retail outlets, picketing those who were uncooperative, getting publicity for the boycott in local news media...
...that in practical terms she can not initiate any legislation which would pass or stop apartheid bills, Mrs. Suzman is convinced that even if she is only a token, it is important to keep the voice of liberalism alive. Another function which she feels she performs is continuing to elicit information from the government, information which without her questioning, would never be aired...