Military bridge, temporary bridge that must usually be constructed in haste by military engineers, from available materials, frequently under fire.
"Things had the look of haste about them, even trees — in haste to rid themselves of their leaves, to be stripped bare," Oates writes.
The banks, in haste to meet tight deadlines, could fail to provide an accurate portrayal of what went wrong.
The truth is the "delicious" cuts Cameron lauds were determined by a political fix constructed in undue haste and free of "complications" posed by consultation, public debate or strategic thinking.
It is also a wonderfully dour appraisal of American infatuation with American technology, the same thing Thoreau was tilting at a century earlier, when he wrote, in "Walden," "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate".
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," he writes in "Walden," "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate".
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1854, in "Walden," "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate".
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may, have nothing important to communicate.
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate".
