What is "pickrell"

Usage examples of "pickrell".

Amos compared the reality with the pictures at the Academy: the General shaking hands with Pickrell, facing the Senate subcommittee, giving a memorial wreath to an anonymous pilot to place in orbit for all those men who had given their lives.

Like Pickrell, it was cold, gray, austere, built not for appearance or comfort but for efficiency.

Men grabbed their clothes and squeezed past Pickrell, glancing backwards curiously.

When they were alone, Pickrell sat stiffly on the edge of the bunk across the narrow aisle.

It's identical with the room when Pickrell was here, even to the stainless steel model of a three-stage shuttle that stood on the desk as a paperweight.

He had seen space heroes promoted over his head, and he had waited and worked and plotted through the commands of such space pioneers as Beauregard Finch and the recently invalided Frank Pickrell, through an era when spacemen could do no wrong.

In fact, the man looked surprisingly like ailing General Pickrell, even to the cataract-flecked eyes, but then he grinned and the resemblance vanished.

Sure the Fish—I beg your pardon—General Pickrell put those orders in my file, and for a good reason, a reason I may tell you some day.

They couldn't build one to carry a man—not with the funds they had—and Bo Finch and Pickrell and a few others perpetrated a fraud on the people so that space could be conquered.