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1  then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  At the age of three Comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a sub-machine gun, and a model helicopter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  There were evenings when they reached their rendezvous and then had to walk past one another without a sign, because a patrol had just come round the corner or a helicopter was hovering overhead.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He would talk with a disagreeable gloating satisfaction of helicopter raids on enemy villages, and trials and confessions of thought-criminals, the executions in the cellars of the Ministry of Love.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies--more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  The dream had also been comprehended by--indeed, in some sense it had consisted in--a gesture of the arm made by his mother, and made again thirty years later by the Jewish woman he had seen on the news film, trying to shelter the small boy from the bullets, before the helicopter blew them both to pieces.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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