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"etymology_text": "Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter.",
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"ref": "1998 January 8, Peter Botte, “Straw Signing Official Today”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-05-18:",
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"text": "Sly and Dave Chandler having set the deal, and Al McAfee moving in to do the legal fine points, Maxwell and Johnson tumbled into our lap for just over a million in cash up front and about twice that in Slumberhaven stock and options. I didn't even have to get involved, except for the short strokes toward the end.",
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