Word: hernando
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...haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
...halls of Montezuma but the halls of Kirkland House proved the biggest problem to Hernando Cortes '43 in his invasion of Harvard University. Three rooms, all for one person, was too much for the South American. The inner room, if there were a bed in it, was probably for sleeping--an obvious necessity, as was the little room with the tile floor. But the large room with the fire-place, "like the North Station," was completely unexplainable, even by the sincere upperclassman who pointed out, "Why, this is the one you live...
Perfidy and avarice have been the two dominating forces ever since Hernando Cortes beached his boat at Veracruz in 1519, planted his cross in the sand and pronounced his classic demand of the natives: "Gold! For we suffer of a disease in the heart that only gold can cure...
...American Hernando de Soto Exposition at Tampa he said, for the benefit of national neighbors to the south: "We purpose to heed the ancient Scriptural admonition not to move our neighbor's landmarks, not to encroach on his metes and bounds...
Whether or not Author Blake's hero is an improvement on Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, he cannot be called an imitation. Cristobal Hernando Pinzon, handsome, precocious hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly...