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Word: crimethink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain 1984 A.D., no one would have suspected that Winston and Julia were capable of crimethink (dangerous thoughts) or a secret desire for ownlife (individualism). After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1949: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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