41.   The Odd Fellows will soon be as dead as dodos.

42.   The moon ball, thank goodness, is as dead as the moon.

43.   The paper boy is as dead as soda fountains and Little Orphan Annie, and I mourn him, lamenting the extinction of my race.

44.   The political movement that paid homage to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is as dead as the divine right of kings.

45.   The Rockets look as dead as Napolean, if not more so.

46.   Then they were shoved and yanked over to Salam Street, where they were shot dead as a mob of their compatriots cheered and jeered.

47.   This sort of cultural politics is as dead as the dodo in Britain.

48.   This moribund ode to the Algonquin Round Table is as dead as the people it portrays.

49.   At Kosevo hospital, officials named the patient shot dead as Dzemal Pismo, who was being treated for head wounds from a mortar blast.

50.   But the people killed by western bombs are just as dead as the Kosovars massacred by Serbs.