There was nothing tragic about the trajectories of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Mordecai Johnson, or any other biracial black person — aside from the burden of racial inequality they shouldered along with anyone else of African descent.
The city and state, meanwhile, are paying $34 million a year toward retiring the $320 million bond issue, and the Airport Authority is paying an additional $6 million a year to maintain the center, an outlay that United once shouldered, along with nearly $700,000 a year for the lease.
All about was chaos, mothers weeping for their dead and wounded children, doctors and nurses shouting to be heard, coffins shouldered along the corridors to taxis that stacked two and three on their roofs at a time, serving as makeshift hearses.
He walked, stoop-shouldered, along Hagefen Street and Tarpat Street, until he reached Nava's primary school.
A line of police stood shoulder to shoulder along the entire front, blocking any sort of access to the cathedral.
Accommodations sprouted shoulder to shoulder along "Hotel Alley": the Winthrop (now the Roger Smith), the Lexington, the Shelton (now the Marriott East Side), the Montclair (now the W New York) and the Beverly (now the Benjamin).
The tunnel is expected to lead to a new boom in construction in the isolated Marina District, more than a mile northeast of the phalanx of casinos standing shoulder to shoulder along the oceanfront Boardwalk.
In real-estate ads, a four-bedroom house at Malibu will list for two million dollars, but the small houses packed shoulder to shoulder along Pacific Coast Highway here, facing the sea, look like Sheepshead Bay.
Many hundreds of police, dressed in fluorescent jackets and soft hats, but with riot helmets at their waists, were already standing shoulder to shoulder along the route, when the demonstration arrived in the square at around 1.30pm.
Yet, to the protesters, housing is only a symbol of other burdens they see the middle class as shouldering, along with disproportionate income tax, the rising costs of goods, and growing inequality gaps.
Standing three or four deep, observers in Penn State ski caps and other blue-and-white gear stood shoulder to shoulder along a route that wound past Beaver Stadium, where Paterno led the Nittany Lions football team for decades; the library bearing Paterno's name; and the shops and restaurants downtown.
