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
A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal."
From Time Magazine Archive
They ought to get up there about noon, and for two hours wigwag to each other, sending and receiving messages that are to be kept in books provided for the purpose.
From Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol by Alan Douglas
One of them wigwagged: "Am I right for Sicily?"
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
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace.
From Time Magazine Archive
He waved his silk hat at the man in the stand and President Roosevelt wigwagged back to Alfred Emanuel Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the quarter of the flag-ship there was a signal, by a vigorously wigwagged letter, and a few minutes later, from a clump of green at the water’s edge, came an answer from the army.
From The Boys of '98 by James Otis
Once, to distract batters, he began wigwagging and semaphoring at the plate from his second base position.
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
Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals.
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
To-day it was to be the great hike to the tops of the mountains, and the wigwagging contest between the two factions.
From Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol by Alan Douglas
