wigwag
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Lex not only brought us together but sent us down different paths than we’d been on before he gave us the wigwag.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then through the glasses, U.S. sailormen saw a ragged figure, a pair of wigwag flags.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Note 48, page 140: All Scouts should know how to wigwag messages.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Then they hustled on up to Sotheby's in London, where Dickie knocked down a Picasso for $21,600 and Liz wigwagged the winning $120,000 bid for a nice old Monet.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of them wigwagged: "Am I right for Sicily?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace.
From Time Magazine Archive
For better visibility during World War II, landing signal officers on U.S. aircraft carriers wore fluorescent-striped uniforms, wigwagged planes to landings with fluorescent "paddles."
From Time Magazine Archive
In obedience to the order, a sailor on the destroyer's bridge wigwagged the message.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were signs that Johnson was wigwagging his open left hand as well as prominently displaying his clenched right fist.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time, Johnson seemed to be wigwagging a readiness to stop the bombing and enter into talks without advance guarantees or gestures from Hanoi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, to distract batters, he began wigwagging and semaphoring at the plate from his second base position.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tenderfoot was well aware of what his chum had been doing while wigwagging Allan.
From The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol by Herbert Carter
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