31.   To his dying day, Mickey Mantle was amazed by the autograph craze.

32.   To his dying day, he was a work in progress, a walking story arc, forever in search of an uplifting ending and never finding it.

33.   To suggest that Cobb was the greatest player ever -- as Casey Stengel insisted to his dying day -- is to invite endless debate.

34.   Ty Cobb was widely recognized as the most hated man in baseball, but to his dying day he maintained that he was a misunderstood genius.

35.   We look to it to extend our lifespan, explain our origins, chart the stars, shrink the globe and make us sexy until our dying day.

36.   When interviewed in the dying days of his administration, Clinton appeared to be ambivalent about whether Gore should make a second try for the presidency.

37.   But no one is really sure of the future in these dying days of British colonial rule.

38.   Howard, who will be the new prime minister if the opposition wins on Saturday, accused Labor of panicking in the dying days of the campaign.

39.   Internationally known as an advocate of human rights, he later entered parliament as a spokesman for democratic values in the dying days of Soviet power.

40.   Internationally known as an advocate of human rights, he entered parliament in the dying days of Soviet power and was revered as a spokesman for democratic values.