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Word: allelujah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Engagement, in fact, is the very essence of Seoul, a vigor and emotionalism that find expression in the fierceness of the city's rites. At the World Evangelical Crusade in the Yoido Plaza last month, half a million Christians gathered round, crying "Allelujah!," their bodies swaying, their faces suffused with joy, tears streaming from their tight-closed eyes. Yet even in their ecstasies, the devotees were model citizens of Seoul: almost no one stood up, lest he obscure another's view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Anarchy By the Numbers | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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