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1  A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  A rocket bomb must have dropped quite near at hand.
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3  Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered.
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4  Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester.
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5  Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar.
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6  'Steamer' was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs.
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7  As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual.
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8  Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a playground and several dozen children were blown to pieces.
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9  Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
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10  That was in another hiding-place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruinous church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier.
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11  What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover.
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12  The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.
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13  It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds--scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.
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14  In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths.
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15  Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later.
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16  So, one evening every week, Winston spent four hours of paralysing boredom, screwing together small bits of metal which were probably parts of bomb fuses, in a draughty, ill-lit workshop where the knocking of hammers mingled drearily with the music of the telescreens.
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17  He remembered how once, after the explosion of a rocket bomb, he had helped to drag a corpse out of some ruins, and had been astonished not only by the incredible weight of the thing, but by its rigidity and awkwardness to handle, which made it seem more like stone than flesh.
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