Word: elicit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though few Republican leaders could disagree with the report's findings, they could hardly accept its recommended remedies. The liberals demanded that the National Committee elicit no-discrimination pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before...
...will know the Class of '40 any better any better in 1971 than now. The passage of time will only dim his memory, cloud his recollection of passing acquaintances and faces, so that the name of his classmate down the hall in his House, appearing on the ballot, will elicit an apologetic: "Oh yes, don't remember exactly who he is but guess he was a good...
Calls to the committee revealed that the anonymous writer was "a reputable member of the faculty," but failed to elicit his name. It appeared to be another chapter in a familiar story; unsubstantiated charges lodged by a man freed from libel by Congressional immunity...
...position, in capsule form, is this: under existing law, all suspects have an absolute right to refuse to answer incriminating questions; they ought to be effectively advised of this right and the consequences of its waiver; the police, whose function it is to elicit incriminating answers, should not be entrusted with the responsibility of advising suspects of their right not to give such answers...
...manufacturing, are urging industrial countries to set up plants in Singapore and buy its products. If the switch fails, says Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee, "it's a certain deduction that the Communists will eventually win power by free elections"-a statement that is clearly made to elicit help and sympathy from...