1.   But then, for some viewers the savage beating of Rodney King was disturbing to watch.

2.   During one moment, after enduring savage beatings that continued for days, McCain tape-records a phony confession that is used in North Vietnamese propaganda.

3.   He rescues a Taiwanese busboy from a savage beating by local Yakuza thugs, losing his little finger in the process.

4.   Resistance has been met with savage beatings, mutilations, abductions and murder.

5.   Schendel died of a heart attack during the assault, which included a beating so savage it cleaved her forehead to the bone.

6.   Subjected to a savage beating by the torrential storms of last winter, it barely flinched.

7.   The story takes several melodramatic turns after Jimmy saves Samir from a savage beating at the hands of local thugs and is himself nearly killed.

8.   Prosecutors claim the savage beating left four inmates dead -- including Enver Alic.

9.   A policeman whose alleged savage beating of his wife led to her death on Christmas Day has been charged with murder, a newspaper reported Friday.

10.   Prosecutors say Michael Costin died after a savage beating, in which the force of repeated blows to the head and neck severed an artery and caused brain damage.