[00:01]bland

[00:02]While Phelps may have been the greatest swimming

[00:04]machine in history, he remained a bland, though

[00:07]courteous, young man whose interview range didn't

[00:11]extend much beyond his eating and sleeping habits or, if

[00:15]he stretched, videogames.

[00:20]shove

[00:22]On TV, I saw huge boxes of bottled water on pallets

[00:26]behind the reporters at the airport and people on the other

[00:29]side of the fence desperate for the water. A reporter said the

[00:34]trucks couldn't take the supplies down to the city because

[00:37]people would push and shove to get them.

[00:41]groove

[00:44]When Bill Cowher was contemplating the possibility

[00:47]of a Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers at the start of the

[00:51]season noted that by the final six games of the regular

[00:55]season, coaches wanted to see their teams in a groove and

[00:59]playing near their peak.

[01:01]jolly

[01:03]The prospect of being home for the holidays isn't as

[01:06]jolly when it means being home alone.

[01:11]belly

[01:12]Participants who were overweight and had a bulging

[01:15]gut were 2.3 times as likely to develop dementia as people

[01:20]with normal weight and belly size.

[01:23]wholly

[01:25]Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of

[01:28]evolution: they "look at an organic being as a savage

[01:32]looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his

[01:36]comprehension."

[01:39]investigate

[01:41]Underpinning it all is the greatest taboo: the creation of

[01:44]any institution such as independent prosecutors, press, or

[01:49]political parties that could challenge or investigate these

[01:52]private empires.