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Cortes's and .
A study of Cortes's work with IAF in Texas, Cold Anger, was written by Mary Beth Rogers.

men and were
The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.
Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.
A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.
At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.
They were all good men.
All through Albany and Laramie counties, other men were doing the same.
The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
The men behind them were Bill Doolin and five of his gang -- every man a killer.
Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.
Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.
others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.
In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.
Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.
There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

men and awe
Atahualpa was in awe of these men dressed in full clothing, with long beards and riding horses ( an animal he had never seen ).
" Rejecting Cicero's view that men join in society primarily through " a certain social spirit which nature has implanted in man ," Hobbes declares that men join in society simply for the purpose of " getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent ... to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe.
Latin pontifex, " bridge-builder ", in this sense, between men and the gods ) and thus viewed the king with religious awe.
Hereby it is manifest that, during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
The purpose of a commonwealth is given at the start of Part II: THE final cause, end, or design of men ( who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others ) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, in which we see them live in Commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby ; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of war which is necessarily consequent, as hath been shown, to the natural passions of men when there is no visible power to keep them in awe, and tie them by fear of punishment to the performance of their covenants ....
From this equality and other causes in human nature, everyone is naturally willing to fight one another: so that " during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war ; and such a war as is of every man against every man ".
Christian authors also view the miracles of Jesus not merely as acts of power and omnipotence, but as works of love and mercy: they were performed not to awe men by the feeling of omnipotence, but to show compassion for sinful and suffering humanity.
The men employed for this job are successful in ' translating ' five addresses out of every six and view Vetinari's casual skill at it with something approaching awe.
Both unassuming men, they were in awe of each other.
Christian authors also view the miracles of Jesus not merely as acts of power and omnipotence, but as works of love and mercy: they were performed not with a view to awe men by the feeling of omnipotence, but to show compassion for sinful and suffering humanity.
Mankind no longer feared Jupiter the tyrant, men no longer acted as tyrants themselves, and " The painted veil, by those who were, called life ,/ Which mimicked, as with colours idly spread ,/ All men believed and hoped, is torn aside ;/ The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains / Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man / Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless ,/ Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king / Over himself ; just, gentle, wise: but man / Passionless ; no, yet free from guilt or pain ".
He also says that " such is his ( Salahuddin's ) justice, and the safety he has brought to his high-roads that men in his lands can go about their affairs by night and from its darkness apprehend no awe that should deter them.

men and at
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??
But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.
Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.
While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.
But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.
It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.
The Commissioners at Boston wrote the victims to see their misdeeds and repent or they should `` look upon them as men prepared for slaughter ''.
As they move through the college years our young men and women are `` socialized '' into a broadly similar culture, at the level of personal behavior.
On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.
Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.
Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

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