putsch

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The failure of the 1991 putsch, the last gasp effort to restore the old regime, was the outcome of this process of decay.

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  • Had he succumbed to his wound at the time of the Munich putsch, the Luftwaffe would not have become what it was by 1939. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • The unanswered question was still whether Lysandros was planning a putsch or not? —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • Not like the pianists of today who prance up and down the key-board with passages in which they have exercised themselves,-putsch, putsch, putsch; what does that mean? —  Beethoven: the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words
  • The failure of the 1991 putsch, the last gasp effort to restore the old regime, was the outcome of this process of decay. —  Stromata Blog
  • The putsch was followed by a brief but bloody civil war in which the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
 

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  1. German, from German dialectal, from Middle High German, thrust, of imitative origin.
 

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