You see, as far as passing the baton down, Michael used to look at Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and James Brown.
He was Tasered several times but he was still able to grab a baton from a police officer and fracture her arm.
Heads of government have picked up the baton at the U.N. and later this week at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.
There was a sense that a passing of the baton from one generation of senators to the next had taken place.
The gleam of hope in this darkness is the number of men who came out to protest and who shielded women from baton blows.
He looks very impressive, with his cocked hat and marshal's baton.
He had telegraphed to baton Rouge for the police to search the steamer on her arrival.
Honestly, if baton Rouge has to be shelled, I shall hate to miss the fun.
And when a man did a very brave deed he was given a hole in his baton.
Perczel respectfully saluted him, and placed the marshal's baton in his hand.
1540s, "a staff used as a weapon," from French bâton "stick, walking stick, staff, club, wand," from Old French baston (12c.) "stick, staff, rod," from Late Latin bastum "stout staff," probably of Gaulish origin or else from Greek *baston "support," from bastazein "to lift up, raise, carry." Meaning "staff carried as a symbol of office" is from 1580s; musical sense of "conductor's wand" is from 1841 (from 1839 as a French word in English). Often anglicized 17c.-18c. as batoon.