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Speak softly and -- and despite what Teddy Roosevelt said -- don't whack anybody over the head with a big stick.
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Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
Teddy with his big stick in Latin America, Kermit with his suitcases of cash in the Middle East.
—Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Instead, Chisholm broke out the big stick.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Joe Don Baker, the actor who as the real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall carried a big stick to mete out his own Tennessee brand of justice, died May 7, his family has announced.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 May 2025
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Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
Teddy with his big stick in Latin America, Kermit with his suitcases of cash in the Middle East.
—Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Instead, Chisholm broke out the big stick.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Joe Don Baker, the actor who as the real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall carried a big stick to mete out his own Tennessee brand of justice, died May 7, his family has announced.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 May 2025
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“Big stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20stick. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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