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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--putsch This week's theme: words borrowed from German. putsch (pooch) noun A secretly plotted, sudden attempt to overthrow a government. [From Swiss German Putsch (thrust, blow).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. An infamous example was the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Hitler and his cohorts stormed a beer hall in Munich where a meeting of the Bavarian government was taking place. The putsch failed and they were sentenced to prison. This attempt gave Hitler national attention and he decided to gain power by legal means. It was during this imprisonment that he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle). -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Another mini-coup, 2003's shopping mall putsch aimed by young officers at Arroyo was yet another reminder of the restive military." Where Has the Hope Gone? The Standard (Hong Kong); Feb 18, 2006. X-Bonus You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer (1954- )

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