21. Without the aid of comet tails, Theriot said, the Shigella and Listeria infections stop dead . 22. Then, just when it seems that the music cannot get any louder, it stops dead . 23. When Beauty faints upon seeing the Beast for the first time, the music stops dead . 24. OK, it won't make the Yankees stop dead . 25. The " history " stops dead at the time the sources were published, in the mid-nineties. 26. The country stops dead during a match. 27. Another Harvard fellow walking down the hall stops dead at her doorway and looks at her uncomprehendingly. 28. What drug-crazed, devoid-of-hope, veteran felon wouldn't stop dead in his tracks at the sight of such a decal? 29. Whichever of her dancers was teaching that evening would stop dead in the middle of demonstrating a phrase. 30. Scenes stop dead when they're on-screen.