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Word: wags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio last week Hildy proved that she could thaw her audience (paying a top of $3.50) even in the frigid atmosphere of an armory. Flitting from microphone to piano in front of her band, combing her upswept hairdo with both hands (an act which once caused a West Coast wag to nickname her "Miss Armpits"), Hildy got them all right into the act as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep or Not | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...watched the Freshmen start out waving their caps to the singing of the Red and Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED AND BLUE | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...Tokyo. During the Italian campaign, Almond took the bitterest personal blow of his life. His only son, Ned, 23, West Point class of '43, fighting with the 45th Division in Germany, wag killed in action. In 1944, his son-in-law, Major Thomas Taylor Galloway, 24, first husband of his daughter Margaret, had been killed while flying over France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Sic 'Em, Ned | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Even Loudun's glib gossips found their tongues slow to wag when, soon after the war, the unassailable Marie Besnard was apparently attracted by a handsome German hired hand and. ex-prisoner of war 30 years her junior. Marie's husband, Leon Besnard, began spending more & more time in the town's bistros and complaining bitterly that he was no longer master in his own home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Arsenic & White Wine | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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