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...U.C.L.A. was defeated by Michigan 26-9. Michigan barely squeaked by Northwestern 7-0. And Northwestern was manhandled by Notre Dame 37-0. That, by all the rules of logic, means that Missouri should have lost to Notre Dame by a lopsided score of something like a zillion to zip. Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fitful Fall | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...year-old divorcee hand lots of green across the counter. The more she pays and the smaller her purchase, the happier we can be. That proves that she has almost conquered need for good. Just a little, ever so little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest and the plushest ones, we are about to become God Himself...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...opening episode, for example, was about a gubernatorial candidate who was being blackmailed by a gang that had incriminating pictures of his teenage daughter. What makes this plot different from the same plot that we've seen a zillion times before, what makes it Turned On Now stuff, is the way the cut-throats got the pictures. You see what the sneaky petes did is...is...they gave her L.S.D.! And then, while she was "under L.S.D."--and putty in their hands, needless to say--one of the blackguards made love to her and took pictures...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Mod Squad | 10/8/1968 | See Source »

...finest hour," boasted an Israeli spokesman. "Or did it take longer than that?" Darryl Zanuck announced plans for a zillion-dollar war movie entitled The Shortest Day. Cassius Clay, the erstwhile Muhammad Ali, changed his name to Morris Steinberg. Ten bar mitzvahs were scheduled at the Nile Hilton, and Jennie Grossinger agreed to manage the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BLINTZKRIEG | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...SEUSS PRESENTS . . . (RCA Camden) If I Ran the Zoo's menagerie of Flustard beast and Bustard bird will keep the youngsters wide-eyed-and the flip-side Sleep Book is guaranteed to make them go to sleep with the other yawning ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and two creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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