A white-and-gold drum major pranced across our windshield, pronging the air with his silver baton.

Bright, brittle, moon-silvery, it is the silver baton of an elfin twirler - only it has glittering facets and numbers on its edge.

He lifted the other and waved something that looked like a silver baton.

He removed a small leather-bound book and silver baton topped by a quartz sphere.

The fleet's music master had a slim silver baton, but his army counterpart used the long straight sword he carried as a cavalry officer.

The primary symbol of the Sultan was a silver baton, which was considered to have magical properties.

National Public Radio was honored with a silver baton for its coverage of 9/11 and the Afghan war.

ABC News won a second silver baton for a series of reports produced by its "Nightline" program on the war in Rwanda.

A regional cable news channel, New England Cable News, won a silver baton for in-depth reporting on a range of regional issues.

She shook her silver baton enthusiastically.