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Franklin Roosevelt had intoned the benediction over economy's grave.

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Singing through the slightly opened window, they had intoned: "Unto Thee, Lord, we call: restore a free Fatherland to us all."

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The D.N.C.'s Laura Quinn explained how megamystery writer Stephen King had recorded radio spots in which he had intoned, "I know what you did in Texas."

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"Blessed is he that expecteth nothing," she had intoned at a pre-summit press conference.

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Of course, the honour of singing the revolutionary hymn was to devolve upon a woman, according to the precedent established in '48, when Rachel had intoned it.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.