"And I didn't want our members taking a shellacking as a result."

The smart money suggests that truth is about to take another shellacking.

Denver's only other loss this season was a 30-0 shellacking at Philadelphia.

"I took a shellacking," he said in an interview this summer, before stopping to correct himself.

They closed out the round robin with an 8-1 shellacking of the Jr.

"We took a shellacking in the elections," he told his colleagues, several of them recounted last week.

And unions are taking a shellacking in many places.

I took a shellacking in the sense that I couldn't make it happen.

For now, we had taken a good shellacking.

That the Dems were, across the board, about to take a shellacking.

Last season, Syracuse traveled to Miami and took a 49-0 shellacking.

It came in a 44-13 shellacking at Philadelphia.

A real shellacking - in the form of, say, a meaningful fine - was never in the cards, and for good reason.

The second was his last game, a 13-4 shellacking at the hands of the Braves in the league championship last year.

The university quarter, down toward the river Spree, had received an awful shellacking from bombs and shells.

What hurts is taking such a shellacking in the d-and-d's.'

It comes two days after the Democrats took their shellacking in the midterm Congressional elections.

The outing was his second straight shellacking and reduced his record to an unglamorous 4-6.

That is how the Yankees had to view their 22-0 shellacking by the Cleveland Indians.

From what I've heard, those Sindareen raiders gave her quite a shellacking.

"We should admit we took a shellacking, regroup and learn, not just put our heads in the sand," he said.

A 7-2 shellacking at arch-rival Thunder Bay was followed by two more draws.

Of course, he and the Rams failed miserably in the 30-3 shellacking dispensed by the 49ers.

"I took a shellacking," the Chicago Democrat said.

Finally he recalled the 33-7 shellacking.