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
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
From here the Red Army made a decisive stroke at the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was also another motive for the movement, and that was to attract the attention and energy of the enemy while Lord Roberts was arranging for a decisive stroke in another quarter.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis
