Word: wigwagged
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Give pop music fans a song they can wigwag, boom or clomp to (e.g., Down by the Old Mill Stream, Deep in the Heart of Texas'), and a national contagion is started. Last week RCA Victor had a husky little new number in the boom division called The Thing. It had sold 400,000 copies in ten days, an alltime Victor high, and was spreading like German measles...
...every kind of wigwag and smoke signal in the language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S. The policymakers were convinced that the U.N. forces would win in Korea if Chinese or Russian Communists didn't butt in, and apparently they hoped that a little cajoling might keep them out. Whatever their reasoning, their pronouncements sounded like an attempt at appeasement...
After a while the little bright eye of the mirror blinked for the last time. Then through the glasses, U.S. sailormen saw a ragged figure, a pair of wigwag flags. The flags began to flirt the air in the unmistakable, bent-arm style of U.S. signal men. They spelled out the message: "I have information...
Last fortnight, after Cornell had given Ohio State a 21-to-7 drubbing, Ohio State's Athletic Director L. W. St. John complained that Snavely had signaled his players by wigwagging from the bench with a roll of papers. Few winning coaches have escaped such a charge. Football experts, more amused than annoyed, last week agreed that, wigwag or no wigwag, Cornell is the No. 1 team of the year...
...able and enthusiastic sailor, the President watched the proceedings closely from the Nourmahal's deck, exercised his prerogative as commander-in-chief of the Navy half way through the race. When he thought the destroyer Manley, with newsreel men aboard, was crowding Endeavour, he had a sailor wigwag: "Suggest you are too close to challenger. ROOSEVELT." The Manley promptly dropped back, trailed the fleet home...