General George S . Patton carried a swagger stick throughout World War II; however, his contained a concealed blade, similar to a Victorian gentleman's sword cane.
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Nor was it lost on a smaller band of antiwar protesters, who tried to break up the ceremony and were beaten back by guards wielding swagger sticks.
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He picked up the name when he returned from noncombatant duty in World War I wearing a Canadian Royal Air Force suit and carrying a swagger stick.
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"The armed forces will take part in preventing any irregularities that could threaten the nation, " he said in a terse statement while clutching his swagger stick.
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As a staff driver Kay preferred " the breezy easy-going Yanks to the stiff-upper-lip, swagger stick-carrying British officers " she usually saluted and opened the door for.
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"Even modest improvements in China's power-projection capabilites could generate serious instabilities, " according to Swaine, should China's emerging military might become the swagger stick of a neighborhood bully.
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In the 1950s and'60s it was not uncommon to see him walking his beat in uniform Bermuda shorts, knee high black socks and carrying a swagger stick.
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A swagger stick-wielding man in uniform, with 20 armed followers, took command of a Kandahar police precinct for a while earlier this year, a lucrative fief, in defiance of police headquarters.
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"I never made another public appearance without it, " said the governor, shaking the futuristic training aid that became his swagger stick on the stump as he overcame early poll deficits.
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Ph�t has been described as a " political Catholic ", Ph�t's habit of customarily being seen in public with a swagger stick and his reputation for autocratic leadership alienated most of his subordinate officers.
