1 But the really relevant date was seven or eight years earlier.
2 Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
3 And that was--well, I couldn't give you the date, but it must'a been fifty years ago.
4 Winston could not even remember at what date the Party itself had come into existence.
5 When once you had succumbed to thoughtcrime it was certain that by a given date you would be dead.
6 Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.
7 The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil.
8 He was not certain of the date, but he could not have been less than ten years old, possibly twelve, when it had happened.
9 Very likely the confessions had been rewritten and rewritten until the original facts and dates no longer had the smallest significance.
10 The date had stuck in Winston's memory because it chanced to be midsummer day; but the whole story must be on record in countless other places as well.
11 The invention of aeroplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switchover in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up.
12 He had the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that of Big Brother.
13 It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right.
14 Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
15 Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.
16 A number of 'The Times' which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.'