Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know what to tell them about premenstrual cramps. Most of the men know more about the inner workings of the space shuttle than about the women who used to share their bed and board. Someone suggested, seriously, that since there were training bras, perhaps the drugstore carried a "starter kit" for the menstrual cycle. (Single dads tend to have unusually intimate conversations with their women friends.) The group finally threw itself on the mercy of a college girl volunteer in the "big sister" program...
...film by Frank Capra. He is a swinging bachelor who tries to conceal his age ("I date a lot of young girls") and a celebrity in the gambling world. That, of course, is a disadvantage. To play undetected-hence unevicted-at major casinos, he resorts to a disguise kit designed for him by Hollywood Makeup Expert Mike Westmore. Says Uston: "I have been a British aristocrat and I have been a cowboy. I have false teeth, false noses and many wigs. With each disguise I use the appropriate accent. But the best ploy is to impersonate a sucker...
After that, Ippolito approached Kit Morris, the assistant to the athletic director, and asked him to coach the squad she assembled. He agreed, and together the two of them raised the club level squad this year to its present varsity status...
...also think the restaurant kept me on the team this year," she says with a smile. "Kit was going to cut me, but my parents always have the team down for dinner during the season, so he didn...
...Coach Kit Morris, she notes. "He has all the patience and perseverance to mold our team from a mediocre club sport to a winning varsity one. Kit made us practice at 7 a.m. every February morning. He said if we really wanted to win this is what we had to do. We practiced more indoors in the preseason than all of last year outdoors. he was right. It paid off--he's a superb coach...