Word: rebroken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people are regularly, often bizarrely, set upon by musclemen intent on altering the result of a horse race, their dramatically understated encounters somehow do not seem sadistic. Francis' heroes, among other things, have been hung up to freeze in icy tack rooms (Nerve) and had a broken hand rebroken with a poker (Odds Against). Yet they regularly turn up-all grit and sticking plaster-to ride or retaliate, faster than anyone could have suspected. Their sudden recoveries seem convincing partly because Francis, like all steeplechase jockeys, fell regularly, and knows the pain of riding with assorted broken ribs...
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