Citations:putsch

English citations of putsch

• 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation:

  You are pessimistic today Lee. And singularly contrary, too, or you wouldn't speak of violence. Our own little putsch was carried through without loss of life, you remember.

• 1996 [1992], “Third Intermezzo”, in Paul Vincent, transl., The Discovery of Heaven, translation of original by Harry Mulisch:

  […] it eats it away and takes its place, like a virus usurps control of the nucleus of a cell; a malicious putsch, an infamous coup d'état.