Word: marsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...
Seats. In Denver, Highway Police Supervisor Joseph Marsa, faced with the fact that the department had no money to repair the force's thinning trouser seats, said his men might soon be forced to "call politely out of the car window to traffic violators...
...Libya must have maddened the Italians: he distinguished himself against them in World War I. General Rommel apparently used one mechanized division (mostly German) in his giant raid, and by outflanking tactics took first el-Aghéila, the farthest point of British advance, then the desert outposts of Marsa el-Bréga and Aged...