Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third-floor room at the Russian consulate, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina nervously snapped off the mid-afternoon news broadcast. She walked to one of the windows overlooking the courtyard below, and wrenched it open. She stood there a moment-a plump, distraught, middle-aged woman in a ruffled blue dress...
...Leave Me Alone." From the exclusive 28 Club next door to the consulate, a tan-uniformed employee rushed into the street, shouting: "There's a woman lying in the courtyard back there." Excited knots of spectators appeared out of nowhere. Newsmen and photographers pelted into the club building. Police guards on duty outside the consulate raced after them...
They reached an areaway, separated from the consulate by an iron fence, just as three Russians burst out of the consulate's back door. As police scrambled over the fence, they could hear the injured woman moaning in Russian: "Leave me alone, leave me alone." Despite her pleas, and the shouted orders of the cops, the Russians picked her up, lugged her back into the consulate, with the police right behind them...
Said a New York buyer: "Wonderful for a queen or a movie star who wants to stand at the head of the stairs and be photographed, but quite useless to any woman who wants to do anything." Dior admitted that he expected to make very little on these styles (at a top price of around $1,000 each). But he had other plans...
Newcomer Scott Brady (brother of Cinemactor Lawrence Tierney), who plays the most redeemable of the fugitives, has a likely future on the screen, and Mabel Paige is fine as the very frightened, very brave old woman who conks the deadliest character (well played by Jeff Corey). Warden Roy Best is unaffected and unembarrassed as Warden Roy Best...