semaphore

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Today, to help relative newcomers navigate potential April Fool’s foibles, our crack “Now & Then” team shares some quirky codes and stubborn semaphores from “Then” days that persist in the “Now.”

From Seattle Times

In the painting hanging to the right of the Howard sculpture, Léger’s layers of brightly colored disks are like a bunch of waving semaphore flags, or maybe the clanging signs at a railroad crossing.

From Los Angeles Times

The movie needs Winslet and Ronan’s skills, their ability to semaphore more with sliding glances and tiny gestures than many actors manage with pages of dialogue.

From New York Times

Spurred on by a woman partisan, he drops a time bomb from a semaphore gantry onto a train but is gunned down and killed by a Nazi machine-gunner before the train explodes.

From Washington Post

Matthew Frace, 36, remembers his grandfather teaching him semaphore, the signaling system used by the lifeguards, which McCaffrey learned early in life in part because of his signalman father.

From Washington Post