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Plural of private
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Mr Graham, a former prosecutor for the air force who looked shattered by the evidence that he has seen, made a point of saying that Mr Rumsfeld's job was not assured and that a few privates and sergeants should not be allowed to take the fall for what might be a systemic failure.
For men these are baggy, mid-calf length bathing trunks, which according to Hasema's founder, Mehmet Sahin, "don't outline one's privates".
One Republican senator on the armed-services committee, Lindsey Graham, said in a televised interview: "We just don't want a bunch of privates and sergeants to be the scapegoats here".
An honourable place, but hardly good enough for a king, and the work was done hastily: the grave dug too short for the body and the body itself crammed in without shroud or coffin, with its hands bound in front of its privates.
The patience of Russia's junior officers and privates, many bootless and half-starved, has been immense.
At the barracks of the Tamansk division outside Moscow, which is evolving into an all-volunteer unit, privates say that conditions are much better than elsewhere: they sleep ten to a room, rather than 100.
The army plans to revert to historical titles for privates, who now become sappers, bombardiers, fusiliers or troopers depending on their function.
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They also appeared in a number of films, supporting Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Hold That Ghost (all 1941), and appearing in their own series of musical comedies, which included Private Buckaroo (1942), What's Cookin'? (1942), and Swingtime Johnny (1943).
They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought.
Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and Charles Koch—who, years ago, bought out two other brothers—among the richest men in America.
Helen Szoke, chief executive of Oxfam Australia, said her organisation "would have put the reduction of poverty as the first benchmark" in the revamped aid program and was "cautious" about the role of the private sector.
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