decisive stroke
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The last one came from a delicate chip out of a hole in the rough to 3 feet that wound up being the decisive stroke in the U.S.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2012
Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke?
From Time Magazine Archive
From here the Red Army made a decisive stroke at the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some decisive stroke must cut the tangle of the involved forces.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard
