1.   Anyone who has ever baked a caramel-frosted yellow cake knows the icing calls for physical beating to thicken.

2.   But few quarterbacks could withstand the physical beating he has taken the past four weeks without going public with his frustrations.

3.   He is a man who experienced political beatings in his first two races for the B.C. Legislature, as well as a brutal physical beating.

4.   I also think he took another physical beating.

5.   One is a brutal physical beating and the other is a devastating bear market.

6.   This was a physical beating with a mental edge to it.

7.   Matthews, who has taken a physical beating, started the season as a third-teamer and is not expected back next season.

8.   Mia Hamm, who took a physical beating throughout the game, took the corner.