Word: murashkina
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...They formed a Coventry-Stalingrad Bond of Friendship Committee, invited people from Stalingrad to visit them. There was no response. The Friendship Committee faded out. Then, one day last week, Coventry's Socialist Mayor Harry Weston got a telephone call from the Russian embassy in London. Madame Tatiana Murashkina, deputy mayoress of Stalingrad, was in Britain and would like to visit Coventry...
...Madame Murashkina proved to be a grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat...
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