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- noun Plural form of
putsch .
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Examples
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The scene of the infamous beer putsches leading up to the rise of Hitler and the Second World War?
Liberation, 2 Jerry Ratch 2011
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The scene of the infamous beer putsches leading up to the rise of Hitler and the Second World War?
In the Air Tonight 2010
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Agonizing days, near putsches, colossal arrogance in the Japanese cabinet, nearly called our "bluff" and nearly sent the war into extra innings ... and unfathomable numbers of Allied and Japanese dead that surely would have ensued in a landing on Kyushu.
Nagasaki 2009
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The GM news could lead to more putsches, says Richard Koppes, counsel for California's state pension fund: "It puts a lot of pressure on boards to start performing better."
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But unlike Turkey's previous coups — which have included three tanks-on-the-street military putsches and one constitutional "soft" coup since 1960 — the Army, the historic defender of Turkish secularism, has remained scrupulously silent.
Attack of the Judges 2008
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McCain and Palin's fear mongering and xenophobic shit-stirring is the stuff of beer hall putsches and the cameras are trained on them steadier than the ones mounted on tripods at the rear of a Portland bookshop on C-Span.
Steven Weber: Mavericks, Mobs and the Cameras That Love Them 2008
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Yet another friend divulged that she refers to those sorts of conversational putsches as Box Blocks.
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For the dictatorship of the proletariat does not mean bombs, putsches, riots and anarchy, as the agents of capitalist profits deliberately and falsely claim.
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That Yala and Vieira are even candidates, let alone front-runners, for Sunday's polls shows the difficulty the tiny country has had in surrendering its past, which since independence in 1974 from Portugal has been pocked with putsches and outbreaks of civil war.
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He has been involved in at least two putsches in the Comoros.
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