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Word: sabachthani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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