Word: swaggerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fence politicos have gossiped that Lepke had something to "sing" to Governor Dewey that the New Deal did not want told. If so, Dewey now had his chance to prove it. Lepke was handcuffed, but he sported a neat black suit and a big black cigar. He had the swagger of a man who thought he "knew too much" to die. To his Federal jailer he cracked: "Keep a bed for me-I'll be back...
...when I saw the first parachutist coming down, followed by others who were resolved to break any resistance. My guards realized that and did not fire. . . . The liberation . . . will live in history-will in the future become legendary." The flat, weary voice climbed to the old balcony swagger as it recounted the rescue. Then it fell again...
...Swagger. In Manhattan, Pickpocket David Hauser appeared in court wearing what he called a loot suit-loose at the waist, tight at the cuffs, for the transportation of swag...
...when Allen was ready to take it to Britain early last year, was that all but six of its 13,000-odd men were volunteers. They were already calling themselves "the first team." They drilled, maneuvered, played under their shoulder patch (the figure 1 in red) with a special swagger, and they roared out the infantry's song with a special gusto...
Last week, during his interlude in North Africa, Patton's eyes and stars were bright. Seated in a British command car, he slapped his leather-bound swagger stick into the palm of his hand and invited a correspondent to return to the action with...