1 People in the Records Department did not readily talk about their jobs.
2 On the third day Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department to look at the notice-board.
3 Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there.
4 Everyone in the Records Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty-four, with two three-hour snatches of sleep.
5 And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department.
6 At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.
7 If she had worked in the Records Department it might have been comparatively simple, but he had only a very dim idea whereabouts in the building the Fiction Department lay, and he had no pretext for going there.
8 In the Ministry of Truth, for example, the Records Department, in which Winston Smith worked, was called RECDEP, the Fiction Department was called FICDEP, the Teleprogrammes Department was called TELEDEP, and so on.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContext Highlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.
10 The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.